jmtd → log → Docker lecture

This morning I gave a guest lecture to students at the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Cloud Computing for Big Data. The subject was a gentle introduction to Docker.

This was the first guest lecture I've given for a couple of years so I thought I was a little rusty but I had a good time giving it and hopefully it went across OK.

slides.pdf including speaker notes in boxes at the bottom of each slide; handouts.pdf (3 slides to a page with space for notes): demo steps.txt (the steps I followed for some of the demos).

I mentioned a couple of things worth linking to here

• I referenced the architecture diagrams at https://www.docker.com/what-docker
• the Docker Hub, https://hub.docker.com/
• most of my demos used the wildfly image https://hub.docker.com/r/jboss/wildfly/
• github issue describing the Steam "delete all your files" bug
• Research paper A Framework for Scientific Workflow Reproducibility in the Cloud (PDF available)
• ikiwiki
• my work-in-progress Ikiwiki-in-a-box Docker image

There was some discussion about alternatives to Docker, things which were briefly mentioned include

• CoreOS, a stripped-down OS for containers
• the Rkt container manager (alternative for Docker daemon)
• the App Container Specification