Jabil Enables a Global Software Supply Chain with Docker Enterprise Edition
Jabil, one of world’s most technologically advanced manufacturing solutions provider with over 100 sites in 29 countries is embarking on a digital journey to modernize their technology infrastructure so the company is better able to deliver the right solutions at the right time to their global customer base.
Starting the Digital Journey By Modernizing .NET Apps
As Jabil embarked on their digital journey with a cloud-first approach in mind, they investigated how to best migrate their applications to the cloud. Jabil partnered with Docker and Microsoft to leverage Docker Enterprise Edition with Windows Server 2016 and Microsoft Azure for this initiative through Docker’s Modernize Traditional Application (MTA) Program – starting with a .NET 4.5 monitoring application to containerize.
Since completing the initial POC, Jabil has continued containerizing more applications and has started scaling their Docker Enterprise usage globally. Sujay Pillai, a Senior DevOps Engineer at Jabil, participated at DockerCon SF 2018 in June and shared with the attendees insights on how Jabil is scaling Docker Enterprise Edition.
Improving Application Security while Reducing Costs at the Edge
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Cool Hacks Spotlight: Gloo Function Gateway
To close DockerCon Cool Hacks keynote, Idit Levine from Solo.io presented Gloo, a high-performance, plugin-extendable, platform-agnostic function Gateway built on top of Envoy.
Idit showed a demo that involved modernizing a traditional application; the classic Spring Pet Clinic sample app, by containerizing it and deploying it to Docker Enterprise Edition. She added functionality to the app by adding a microservice written in Go through a Gloo route. Then added more functionality by adding a Gloo route to an AWS Lambda function, creating a true hybrid cloud application combining legacy, microservices and serverless components.
She then provided a demo of Squash, that works with Gloo to live debug two microservices forming an application running in Kubernetes on Docker Enterprise Edition, one in Java from IntelliJ, one in Go from Visual Studio Code.
She finished her presentation by announcing and open sourcing Qloo, a GraphQL Server built on top of Gloo and the Envoy Proxy. This allows you to add GraphQL support without any coding to your existing application, and combining functions together in a workflow described as a graph.
See all these excellent demos in the video below, and view the presentation on SlideShare.
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DockerCon SF 2018 Cool Hacks Spotlight: Kubeflow
The closing keynote at DockerCon is traditionally the Cool Hacks keynote. This year, we featured three great hacks showing off innovative uses of Docker. In this post, I’d like to highlight one in particular, the Kubeflow demo with David Aronchick, and Michelle Casbon.
Machine Learning (ML) is becoming increasing popular, and important to enterprises. Kubeflow is an ML toolkit for Kubernetes, developed by Google. It’s a dedicated, portable and scalable approach to machine learning, using tools you’re already using to deploy other applications. It’s great because data scientists can use it to test out model creation on their laptops. And data engineers can take the models and use the power of Docker Enterprisein the cloud to further train and use the models in production.
In their demo, David and Michelle showed building an app using Kubeflow first with Docker Desktop and then on Docker Enterprise in the cloud. And they even took advantage of Google Cloud Tensorflow Processing Units native to the platform.
Check out their presentation and demo, and also check out Kubeflow to learn more.
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DockerCon Updates on Containerd, BuildKit, and a Reflection about the Enduring Value of Docker Engine
Two weeks ago was our eighth DockerCon in just four years. Our community of contributors, developers, IT users, enterprises and ecosystem partners has grown exponentially into the millions, anchored on our founder Solomon Hykes’ simple premise of democratizing the use of the software container. Today as was from the beginning, Docker creates simple tooling and a universal packaging approach that bundles up all application dependencies inside the container. Docker Engine enables applications to run anywhere consistently on any infrastructure, solving “dependency hell” for developers and operations teams, and eliminating the “it works on my laptop!” problem.
In the past 2 years, Docker Engine’s codebase has been refactored into several reusable components, the most important being containerd, the core container runtime, and BuildKit, the part of Docker Engine used to build images. In the contribute and collaborate track at DockerCon, Michael Crosby and Tonis Tiigli gave an update on these two projects (video, slides)
Docker platform internals from Docker, Inc.
containerd, the core container runtime in Docker Engine has been leveraged by millions of users and is run in production by tens of thousands of organizations. Eighteen months ago, Docker spun out containerd from Docker Engine; donated Continue reading
DockerCon 2018: Top 5 Rated Sessions
We are happy to share the videos from the top 5 rated sessions from last week’s DockerCon 2018 in San Francisco. The DockerCon on-demand sessions videos are ready for you to explore.
Note: The Ecosystem sessions will not be available.
Demystifying Container Connectivity with Kubernetes in Docker
by Nicola Kabar & Karthik Prabhakar
Message-Based Microservices Architectures Driven with Docker
by Michele Leroux Bustamante
Docker Storage: Designing a Platform for Persistent Data
by Dan Finneran
Istio: Managing, Securing, and Observing Microservices
by Lin Sun & Zack Butcher
Tips and Tricks of the Docker Captains
by Adrian Mouat
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Disruption from Within: Driving Innovation at Franklin American with Docker EE
When you think of mortgage companies, you think of paperwork. You probably don’t think agile and responsive to customers. But Franklin American Mortgage wanted to disrupt that model. With their investments in innovation, microservices and Docker Enterprise Edition, they’ve been able to quickly create a platform to make technology core to their success.
Don Bauer, the DevOps lead at Franklin American is part of an innovation team the mortgage company had established last year to challenge the status quo. Franklin American was doing amazing things and transforming their business — all with Docker Enterprise Edition as the foundation.
Don presented at DockerCon 2018 along with Franklin American’s VP of Innovation, Sharon Frazier. They’ve been able to quickly build a DevOps culture around four pillars: Visibility, Simplification, Standardization and Experimentation. Experimentation is key. It lets them fail fast, and fearlessly.
In an interview at DockerCon, Don explained how they use Docker Enterprise Edition to drive innovation.
“Docker has allowed us to fail fearlessly. We can test new things easily and quickly and if they work, awesome. But if they don’t, we didn’t spend weeks or months on it.” – Don Bauer, DevOps Lead
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Making Compose Easier to Use with Application Packages
Docker Compose is wildly popular with developers for describing an application. In fact, there are more than 300,000 Docker Compose files on GitHub. With a set of services described in a docker-compose.yml file, it’s easy to launch a complex multi-service application (or a simple, single-service app) on Docker by running a single command. This ease of use makes Docker Compose perfect for development teams striving for a quick way of getting started with projects.
Over time Compose has evolved, adding lots of features which help when deploying those same applications to production environments, for example specifying a number of replicas, memory resource constraints or a custom syslog server. But those attributes can become specific to your own environment. There are a number of different strategies for trying to address this situation, but the most common is relying on copy and paste. It’s fairly common to maintain multiple Compose files for the same application running in different environments for example. This leads to two problems:
- We share Docker images all the time, but don’t have a good way of sharing the multi-service applications that use them
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It’s a wrap! The DockerCon Cool Hacks closing keynote.
Yesterday we continued a long tradition at DockerCon, the Cool Hacks closing keynote. In our Cool Hacks keynote, we like to emphasize applications that push the limits and applications that represent major future trends in container workloads. We also like to feature applications that demonstrate how Docker fueled innovation can be used every day.
This DockerCon, the three applications we chose embodied all of these characteristics.
Our first hack, by Christopher Heistand of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory is helping save the world. The Double Asteroid Redirect Mission Test (DART) is testing kinetic impact against an asteroid to measure whether one can be redirected. They use Docker to emulate the specialized and expensive hardware, saving them money and development time.
David Aronchick (@aronchick ) and Michelle Casbon (@texasmichelle) demonstrated our second hack with Kubeflow. Machine learning in production workloads, at scale.
And finally, Idit Levine (@Idit_Levine) showed us Gloo. Gloo gives you the portability and choice of a serverless framework, from cloud services like AWS Lambda to running one of the several containerized self-hosted serverless frameworks. All running in Docker EE.
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DockerCon Guest Speaker: Liberty Mutual
In yesterday’s DockerCon keynote, Eric Drobisewski, Senior Architect at Liberty Mutual Insurance, shared how Docker Enterprise Edition has been a foundational technology for their digital transformation.
If you missed it, the replay of the keynote is available below:
Turning Disruption into Opportunities
Liberty Mutual – the 3rd largest property and casualty insurance provider in the United States – recognizes that the new digital economy is bringing a faster cycle of technology evolution. Disruptive technologies like autonomous vehicles and smart homes are changing the way customers interact and transact. Liberty Mutual sees these as opportunities to bring new services to market and ways to reinvent traditional insurance models, but they needed to become more flexible and agile while managing their technical debt.
Rapid Expansion of Docker EE
As a 106-year old company, Liberty Mutual recognized that they were not going to become agile overnight. Liberty Mutual has instead built a “multi-lane highway” that enables both traditional apps and new microservices apps to modernize at different speeds according to their needs, all based on Docker Enterprise Edition.
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Open Source Serverless Frameworks on Docker EE
Since the advent of AWS Lambda in 2014, the Function as a Service (FaaS) programming paradigm has gained a lot of traction in the cloud community. At first, only large cloud providers such as AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions or Azure Functions provided such services with a pay-per-invocation model, but since then interest has increased for developers and entreprises to build their own solutions on an open source model.
The maturation of container platforms such as Docker EE has made this process even easier, resulting in a number of competing frameworks in this space. We have identified at least 9 different frameworks*. In this study, we start with the following six: OpenFaaS, nuclio, Gestalt, Riff, Fn and OpenWhisk. You can find an introduction (including slides and videos) to some of these frameworks in this blog post from the last DockerCon Europe.
These frameworks vary a lot in feature set, but can be generalized as having several key elements shown in the following diagram, from the Serverless Architecture from CNCF Serverless Working Group whitepaper:
- Event sources – trigger or stream events into one or more function instances
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Day 1 Keynote Highlights from DockerCon San Francisco 2018
Hello from San Francisco! Tuesday we kicked off the first day of DockerCon with general session jam packed with inspiration, demos and customer guest speakers.
Steve Singh, our CEO and Chairman opened the session with Docker’s promise to ensure freedom of choice, agility in development and operations and pervasive security in a container platform that can help unlock the potential for innovation in every company. Docker will deliver an integrated toolset with a delightful user experience that needs innovators like you.
Day one also featured three demos of new technologies capabilities for both Docker Desktop and Docker Enterprise Edition. These features are not yet generally available but released and those interested in the beta can sign up here to be notified.
- Docker Desktop features a graphical user interface, templates and workflows in addition to existing CLI to make it easy for new developers to build container applications
- Docker Enterprise Edition integrates Windows Server support with Kubernetes. Docker Enterprise Edition already integrates Kubernetes for Linux containers and is now extending the operational model for Windows Server.
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Federated Application Management in Docker Enterprise Edition
Today at DockerCon, we demonstrated new application management capabilities for Docker Enterprise Edition that will allow organizations to federate applications across Docker Enterprise Edition environments deployed on-premises and in the cloud as well as across cloud-hosted Kubernetes. This includes Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), AWS Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS), and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
A Single Control Plane for Multi-Cloud Deployments
Most enterprise organizations have a hybrid or multi-cloud strategy and the rise of containers has helped to make applications more portable. However, when organizations start to adopt containers as their default application format, they start to run into the challenges of managing multiple container environments, especially when each of them has a different set of access controls, governance policies, content repositories and operational models. For common hybrid and multi-cloud use cases like bursting applications to the cloud for additional capacity or migrating them from one site to another for availability or compliance reasons, organizations start to realize the need for a singular control plane for all containerized applications – no matter where it will be deployed.
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Extending Kubernetes to Windows Server with Docker Enterprise Edition
Docker and Microsoft have been working together since 2014 to bring containers to Windows and .NET applications. Today at DockerCon, we share the next step in this partnership with the preview and demonstration of Kubernetes on Windows Server with Docker Enterprise Edition.
Docker and Microsoft Advance Windows Containers
Docker and Microsoft brought container technology into Windows Server 2016, ensuring consistency for the same Docker Compose file and CLI commands across both Linux and Windows. Windows Server ships with a Docker Enterprise Edition engine, meaning all Windows containers today are based on Docker. Recognizing that most enterprise organizations have both Windows and Linux applications in their environment, we followed that up in 2017 with the ability to manage mixed Windows and Linux clusters in the same Docker Enterprise Edition environment, enabling support for hybrid applications and driving higher efficiencies and lower overhead for organizations. Using Swarm orchestration, operations teams could support different application teams with secure isolation between them, while also allowing Windows and Linux containers to communicate over a common overlay network.
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Introducing an Easier Way To Design Applications in Docker Desktop
In today’s DockerCon keynote we previewed an upcoming Docker Desktop feature that will make it easier than ever to design your own container-based applications. For a certain set of developers, the current iteration of Docker Desktop has everything one might need to containerize an applications, but it does require an understanding of the Dockerfile and Compose file specifications in order to get started and the Docker CLI to build and run your applications.
But we’ve been thinking about ways to bring this capability to ALL developers. We want to make it easier to get started with containerization, and we want to make it even easier to share and collaborate and integrate container-based development in to more developers’ toolsets. This new guided workflow feature is a preview of what we’re working on and we wanted to share more details on the ideas we’ve incorporated and are thinking about for the future.
The first thing you’ll notice is this is a graphical tool. We’re not breaking anything that’s already working today – everything being created behind the scenes is still Dockerfiles and Compose – we’re just giving you a new way to get from Point A to Point B, because not everyone Continue reading
Not Attending DockerCon 2018? Here’s your Top 5 “To Do’s”
If you’re not one of the 6,000 expected attendees at DockerCon 2018 in San Francisco, don’t worry, you don’t have to miss a thing! We’ve put together a list of the Top 5 thing you can do to stay current on all things DockerCon, if you’re not attending this year.
1. Learn about the latest release – Docker Enterprise Edition (EE) 2.0
Learn about the only enterprise-ready container platform that enables IT leaders to choose how to cost-effectively build and manage their entire application portfolio at their own pace, without fear of architecture and infrastructure lock-in. Read the blog and watch the Docker EE 2.0 Launch Virtual Event with customer stories from Liberty Mutual, Franklin American Mortgage, and ADP.
2. Watch the Livesteam of the DockerCon Keynotes and Cool Hacks
Register now to see the DockerCon keynote sessions live, from where in the world you may be, on June 13th and 14th at 9AM PDT . Hear the latest Docker announcements from Steve Singh (CEO) and Scott Johnston (Chief Product Officer) and enjoy the highly technical demos of the latest innovations from the Docker team.
3. Follow the News from your peers at DockerCon
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Your Personal Journey at DockerCon
DockerCon San Francisco 2018 is here! From all of us at Docker HQ we want to welcome those that have travelled to be with us in San Francisco. For this year’s DockerCon we wanted to create an experience that uniquely helps YOU figure out where you are today and where you want to go next with your containerized applications and operations. As you get to the Moscone Center in San Francisco, you’ll see signs guiding you towards various stages of the technology adoption journey. Below we’ve summarized common traits that customer like you have at each phase of the journey: once you identify where you click to jump down to some last minute guidance of sessions and activities that we think will be most helpful for each stage.
Click to jump directly to your journey stage:
- Getting Started: If you’re new to containerization and trying to figure what this Docker thing is and why people are using it, this DockerCon experience is for you
- First Project: Check out this experience if you’ve got the fundamentals of containerization down and are ready to move on to using the Docker container platform on a real project and build your core Continue reading
DockerCon 2018 Survival Tips
Embark on your DockerCon 2018 journey like a pro with these helpful tips:
Tip 1: Things to bring
- Laptop in tow! If you attending any of the hands-on labs or workshops this is a must have.
- Bring charger for mobile device(s). Battery life is a major key to conference survival.
- Remember your favorite notebook and writing apparatus.
- Wear comfortable shoes! There will lots of walking and standing
- Bring a jacket, sweater, or a coat – it may get cool in the venue and in San Francisco at night!
Tip 2: Stay in the Know with the DockerCon App
Download the official DockerCon application for DockerCon 2018:
This app features attendee resources such as agendas, venue maps, access to Hallway Track, attendee networking and more! You can use the DockerCon App to take notes, rate both speakers and sessions.
Docker Hallway Track is an innovative platform that helps you find and network with like-minded people and meet one-on-one. Make new and meaningful connections by sharing knowledge and meet with other attendees with using the: book a Hallway Track scheduling tool. Just log in once using your registration credentials to access.
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Register for the DockerCon San Francisco 2018 Livestream
For those of you who can’t make it to DockerCon 2018 in San Francisco, June 12-15, you don’t have to miss out on the exciting news coming live at the event. We are happy to share that the General Sessions on both Day 1 and Day 2, as well as Moby’s Cool Hacks on Day 2 at DockerCon will be live streamed from San Francisco. For those looking to attend DockerCon SF Live there are a few tickets left. Don’t miss your last chance to register.
Find out about the latest Docker announcements live from Steve Singh (CEO) and Scott Johnston (Chief Product Officer) and enjoy the highly technical demos the Docker team has prepared for you!
Livestream schedule:
- General Session Day 1 – 6/13 – 9 to 10:30am PDT
- General Session Day 2 – 6/14 – 9 to 10:30am PDT
- Moby’s Cool Hack on Day 2 – 6/14 – 4 to 5pm PDT
The livestream player will be embedded on the DockerCon site a few hours prior to the event. Be sure to sign up here to receive an email with the link to the livestream before the general session starts!
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Docker Enterprise Edition in Production: Stories from 9 Enterprise Organizations at DockerCon — Plus a Bonus!
One of the best things about conferences is meeting people and hearing their stories. I’ve been fortunate to work with several Docker customers this year on their DockerCon sessions. You’ll want to catch at least a few of these while you’re there next week. Make sure to add them to your schedule.
Here are the highlights from 9 amazing stories from Docker commercial customers that will be told at DockerCon, many from the world’s largest companies. There’s a bonus session, too!
Read on to learn more.
How Bosch built a “Container as a Service” platform. Till Schenk, IT Infrastructure Architect, will talk about building a centralized service based on Docker Enterprise Edition to serve a 62,000+ employee R&D organization. Hear about the architectural and operational decisions, the challenges Bosch faced, and how they’ve scaled up to 1,000 image repositories. 12:00 pm on Wednesday, June 13.
MetLife’s “ModSquad” talks about their production NoSQL DB on Docker. Jonell Taylor, a Platform Engineer on the MetLife internal innovation will explain the process they went through moving from traditional RDBMS to NoSQL on Docker Enterprise Edition. You’ll hear about the decisions they made impacting orchestration, availability, database replication, and disaster recovery. 1:50 pm on Continue reading
What’s on your DockerCon 2018 Agenda?
DockerCon is quickly approaching, taking place next week from June 12th – 15th at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. The conference will welcome 6,000+ developers, sysadmins, architects, VP of Apps and other IT leaders to get hands-on with the latest innovations in the container ecosystem at DockerCon 2018.
Have you scheduled your DockerCon Agenda or RSVP’d for sessions?
Check out the DockerCon Agenda Builder to browse and search the sessions. As an attendee log in using the information and create your DockerCon schedule.
We’ve brought back some of your favorite from past DockerCon events and are also thrilled to welcome many first-time DockerCon speakers to the stage. Here is a first look at some of our favorites sessions:
Customers in Production
Use case sessions highlight how companies are using Docker to modernize their infrastructure and build, manage and secure distributed applications. These sessions are heavy on business value, ROI and production implementation advice, and learnings.
- Building your NoSQL ship: How an Enterprise transitioned from a RDBMS to NoSQL DB using Agile and Docker by Jonell Taylor, Metlife
- Black Friday and 100K Deployments Per Year by Srikanth Bulusu & Sanjoy Mukherjee, JCPenney
- Packaging Software for Distribution on the Continue reading