One of the things that you notice when using Docker, is that all commands you run from the Dockerfile with RUN or CMD are performed as the root user. This is not only a bad security practice for running internet facing services, it might even prevent certain applications from working ...

As part of providing a scalable infrastructure, many components in the datacenter are now moving towards software-based solutions, such as SDN (for networking) and SDS (for storage). Ceph one of these projects to provide a scalable, software-based software solution. It is often used in conjuction with OpenStack for storing disk ...

Setting up infrastructure should be as simple as playing with LEGO. With the advent of Docker, IT has underwent a dramatic change. For instance, it became easy to setup throw-away development environments. These could then be used to create clean environments to perform builds in. And eventually, containers are starting ...

In this presentation I will introduce Software Distribution for a new era. In short it will explain the negatives of using packages, how 'containers' improved on this, but now how to make this available for use on servers and desktops.

In short it will talk about the following topics:

• container ...