My ‘Container Ops: Using Platform Tooling to Build Your App Management Story’ talk slides from the Linux ContainerCon conference in Seattle, Aug 2015. The presentation provides an introduction to the operational considerations for managing containers in real-world production usage, focusing on the Cloud Foundry platform approach to container lifecycle management issues such as upgrades, security, deployments, logging, failover and scaling. The one hour talk shares some parallels from the container logistics ecosystem, discusses operations-centric platform considerations and open-source tools, then ends with a demonstration of the Lattice container runtime.

1. Container Ops

2. David Soul
Platform Technical Marketing
Pivotal Cloud Foundry
@davidsoul

3. Platform for cloud
native applications

4. “Fortune 5,000” focus
Huawei: 5,000 apps
GE: IoT Platform
Baidu: 700 devs
Released 2011
47 foundation members
2,000 committers
28,000 meetup members
cf scale

5. Who here is running
containers in production?

6. Using platform tooling
to improve your app
management

7. Shipping Containers

8. Cargo Loading Costs
Loose Cargo
$5.86 / ton
Containerized Cargo
$0.16 / ton
(1956)

9. Text
98% reduction in loading costs
700% increase in international trade
Stevedoring industry transformed
Shipping Container Economics

10. Timeline
First shipping
container
First container
standards body
First purpose-built
container ship
1766
1933
1955

11. Shipping Containers
+
Container Shipping Terminals
Container Ships
Loading Cranes
Flatbed Rail Carriages
Flatbed Trucks
Shipping Container Ecosystem

12. Shipping Container Issues
Damage and loss
Intermodal transfers
Standardization
Automation
Workforce impacts and retraining
Container tracking
Custom infrastructure investment
Loading process optimization
Environment control
Theft

13. Technological innovation
=
Mass automation of repetitive
manual labor

14. Technological innovation
+
Huge ecosystem transition
=
Mass automation of
repetitive manual labor

15. Software
Containers

16. Containers are
becoming a
commodity

17. This is great

18. Containers had limited
value until their
supporting ecosystem
emerged

19. Now you have
1,000s of containers

20. IT operations is
still difficult

21. What are the difficult
operations problems?

22. Security: How do you patch a
major vulnerability like
Heartbleed?

23. Deployment: How do you do
zero downtime deploys?

24. Auditing: How do you
track application
configuration changes?

25. Recover for Docker daemon failures
Allocate container
workloads to VMs
Patch OS and language
vulnerabilities
Managing application
environment variables
Starting backing services
before the application
Upgrading the
Docker daemon
Setup on-premise
monitoring to match
public cloud
Zero downtime deploys
Logging and metrics
Scaling
Auditing

26. Monitor
Failover
Recovery
Alerts
Credentials
Patching
Logs
Metrics
Build
Deploy
Rollback
Scale
Capabilities

27. It’s not enough to just
have containers

28. It took years for the shipping
container ecosystem to arrive
What do the first software
container ships look like?

29. How will you structure
your container
operations?
Standardized tools
Automated processes
Application contracts

30. Structured
Platforms
Unstructured
Platforms
vs

32. Spring
Netflix OSS
Lattice
BOSH
Concourse CI
Cloud Foundry
spring.io
netflix.github.io
lattice.cf
tiny.cc/learn-bosh
concourse.ci
cloudfoundry.org

33. Ops