Friday, June 19, 2015

Don't Skeumorph your Containers from DevOps Summit

Here's my presentation from DevOps Summit in NYC last week. When I get a chance I'll put up some sort of video but this should work as a placeholder until then.

Skeuomorphism usually means retaining existing design cues in something new that doesn’t actually need them. However, the concept of skeuomorphism can be thought of as applying more broadly, to applying existing patterns to new technologies that, in fact, cry out for new approaches. In this session, Red Hat’s Gordon Haff will discuss why containers should be paired with new architectural practices such as microservices rather than mimicking legacy sever virtualization workflows and architectures.

It’s far more fruitful and useful to approach containers as something fundamentally new and enabling that’s part and parcel of an environment including containerized operating systems, container packaging systems, container orchestration like Kubernetes, DevOps continuous integration and deployment practices, microservices architectures, “cattle” workloads, software-defined everything, management across hybrid infrastructures, and pervasive open source as part of a new platform for cloud apps.

More discussion of containers at redhat.com.

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