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The container is a lie

Speaker: Larry Garfield
Food/Venue: Talener

Containers are all the rage these days. They’re fast, they make deployment
easy, they handle dependencies, they slice, they dice, they make julienne
fries! But... what are they? What exactly is a container and how does it
work? Just how does a container differ from the “old” silver bullet, virtual
machines?

Here’s a hint: It has nothing to do with boats, or whales, or shipping.
That’s all marketing fluff.

Containers are simply a shorthand name for leveraging newer features of
operating system kernels that let the OS lie to programs about how they’re
running. In fact, all of modern software is built on lies. That’s what’s
useful about it!

To understand how that works, why it’s so useful, and where it’s not, let’s
dive into how software actually works on a modern Linux system to see how
those kernel features fit into the big picture, building up to “containers”
along the way. Pull back the veil of lies and see how your computer really
works.

Organizer: devs

Event time: 27-03-2018 01:30:00 CEST

Address:
200 North LaSalle Street, Suite 1920
Chicago
United States