DockerCon 2016

Random Facts

• 4,000+ attendees
• Held at Washington State Convention Center in Downtown Seattle
• Bonus fact: The conference was planned in VM3!

Docker For Mac/Windows

• In the past: Had to have VirtualBox installed on your machine
• Now: you can now run containers on OSX/Windows w/out VirtualBox
• How: Uses a technology called xhyve, which is a lighweight VM for OSX, to run Alpine Linux, which hosts the containers
• https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-mac/

Docker Swarm

• Problem: How do you manage many containers spread across many nodes? Orchestration
• In the past: Had to use a 3rd party tool like Kubernetes
• Now: Latest Docker beta (1.1.2) comes with Swarm Mode
• Provides very simple command-line API for complex orchestration

Talk: Docker For New Dev Setup

• Problem: New developer on job and need to get started working easily
• Solution: Docker for Mac + docker-compose
• Can live debug code within a container and push change to staging server via Docker Cloud

Talk: Persistent Data Patterns

(Joyent - Casey Bisson)

Subtitle

• Keep app secrets in vault (recommends HashiCorp vault)
• Minimize cost of schema changes by breaking schema into de-coupled microservices
• Upgrade DB by adding new replicas and removing existing replicas

Talk: Refactoring Legacy App To Docker

 (Apcera - Josh Ellithorpe)

• Understand where your concerns are and use tools to validate decisions
• Best practices:
  • Consuming services from service discovery system
  • Clean startup and shutdown

Talk: Making Friendly Microservices

 (Michele Titolo - CapitalOne)

• Microservice:
      - A small service that does one thing well
      - Own their own data
• What makes a micro service helpful?
  • Documentation
  • Monitoring Tools
  • Logging
    • unique ID per request
      

Talk: Making Friendly Microservices

 (Michele Titolo - CapitalOne)

• Tool: Atlas
  • Netflix system for metrics gathering for micro-services
  •  Send it CPU usage, latency, memory consumption, and it returns insights into how these metrics are impacting your service

Talk: Making Friendly Microservices

 (Michele Titolo - CapitalOne)

• Tool: Zipkin
  • Latency tracking / request throughout micro-service architecture

Talk: Making Friendly Microservices

 (Michele Titolo - CapitalOne)

• Micro-service Best Practices
  • Consistent error messaging
  • Use one base URL for everything
    • consumers should not know they are hitting a micro service
    • Micro-services are an implementation detail, so need to expose this to a consumer

Talk: Making Friendly Microservices

 (Michele Titolo - CapitalOne)

• Micro-service Best Practices
  • Don't take Single responsibility too far!
    • Some pieces are just to inter-connected

Talk: Serveless Docker

 (Ben Firshman - CapitalOne)

• Taking serverless concept of AWS Lambda and applying to Docker Containers - running small code snippets within containers on-demand
• CLI-tool that allows you to type in function, spins up a Docker container in Docker-Swarm, and returns output when complete 

http://www.slideshare.net/Docker/presentations