Title: Intro to Docker Containers
Speakers: Mike Raab

See my live blog table of contents from Oracle Cloud

History of containers

• ex: UNIX containers, Solairs Zones, VMWare
• Docker as a product and company made containerization easy

Use cases

• Ready to run application stacks – setting up a cluster can take a few days even if know what doing. Preparing Docker takes a few minutes once you have it configured.
• New development/microservices
• One time run jobs – the data dies with the container by default so good if don’t need it.
• Front end app servers
• Server density – Portable – can run same container anywhere

Architecture/Nomenclature

• VM has entire OS, app, dependencies, binaries, etc.. Container include the app and dependencies.
• Docker client – CLI for interfacing with Docker
• Dockerfile – text file of docker instructions to assemble image
• Image – hierarchies of files. Input to the docker build command. Collection if files and metadata. Contains layers.
• Container – running instance of an image using the docker run command.
• User doesn’t know whether you are using a container. Pure implementation.
• Registry – image repository. DockerHub is largest repo.
• Docker engine – container execution and admin. Uses Linux Kernel namespaces so have isolated workspaces. Can do Docker for Windows but different image and not popular. 99.9%+ Linux

Commands inside DockerFile

• FROM x – the base/parent image
• COPY x y – copy x to y
• RUN c – run UNIX command c
• ENTRYPOINT [“a”] – run command a at startup

Docker commands

• docker build -t dockerfile . – run in current directory
• docker tag image user/image
• docker push username/image
• docker pull username/image
• doker run – pull the image and run in container
• docker logs
• docker ps  – running docker containers
• docker ps – a – all docker containers whether running or not
• docker images – list all images
• docker rm
• docker tag
• docker login – login to registry
• docker push/pull
• docker inspect – config metadata
• docker-compose up -d – run multi container Docker applications

Why docker is hot

• developers love it
• fast to spin up environment
• open source
• code agility, CI/CD pipeline, devops
• portability
• managed kubernetes – running it is hard. use managed/cloud environments – oracle commercial time 🙂

My take

Good intro/review. I’m giving a session right after this one and wanted to get ready. So this was a good session for me. Not brand new content, but still go something out of it.

Title: DevOps at Scale; Greek Tragedy in Three Acts
Speakers: Maria Kaval and Shaun Smith

See my live blog table of contents from Oracle Cloud

Started by talking about 6 trends

Serverless functions

• Spins up when funtion calls
• Goes away after
• Like Cinderella’s carriage – but with a server. Only there for a short time

DevOps -> NoOps

• Taking work of ops away from you
• As developer, just want to write your code
• Less emphasis on memory management and such

Open Source

• Oracle cloud based on open source
• Not focused on profit

Chatbots

• Teens like testing and emojis
• Adults like to text too; good interface
• With chatbots, don’t know if talking to human or bot

Blockchain

• More than just bitcoin
• Ledgers build trust

Machine Learning

• Now have proessing/compute power to enable machine learning

Use case – selling and buying a car

• The chatbot asks basic info and calls serverless functions to look up value
• Showed Oracle bot builder service – set up intents (phrases that represent what you want to do), train bot (ex: linguistics, machine learning)
• Test bot by trying a chat in the config screen
• Artificial intelligence integration trains bot

Serverless Functions

• Serverless is a category
• There are still servers; you just don’t have them. Instead the cloud provider does
• Economics – only pay when service is being used – so only when called vs standing service
• Agility – small amounts of code. So easier to write/debug/etc
• Reliability – in cloud
• Innovation – easier to try things out since easy to deploy

Fn

• http://fnproject.io
• Sample commands – init, run, test, deploy, call
• Flow UI lets you watch as code runs. Looks like a sequence diagram except live; shows how long took, etc

Today, I’m attending Oracle Code New York. As usual, here’s my live blog post summarizing the sessions I went to.

Good weather related intro. He took a poll on who had hot water this morning (most people) and who had a cancelled flight (some speakers.)

Sessions

• DevOps at Scale – Baruch Sadogursky and Alena Prokharchyk
• Building a chatbot – Maria Kaval and Shaun Smith
• Intro to Docker Containers – Mike Raab
• Intro to Mutation Testing – This was my session. The deck is on speakerdeck.
• Lunchtime – I was on a Women in Tech Panel. The video will be probably by available in the future
• I skipped the 2:30 session . Instead, I finshed answering questions from attendees at the WIT (Women in Tech) panel, ate lunch and networked
• Getting Started with Hadoop, Spark, Hive and Kafka – Edelweiss Kammermann
• Hands on Lab Docker/fn- the instructions for the lab. (I stayed for a little over half the time so I could go the Java talk at 5:15. I did all the Docker labs and 2/3 labs for the fn server part.
• Moving Java Forward Faster – Donald Smith