Introduction to Containers and Container Orchestrators

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Avik Kundu

Software Engineer, Red Hat

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About Me

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• Software Engineer @ Red Hat India
• Primarily work on the Openshift Platform
• AWS Community Builder
• Have contributed to various CNCF projects like Kubernetes, Knative, Keptn, Tekton, etc.
• Like to attend conferences and meetups and learn more from the community.

Portfolio: avikkundu.in | Twitter: @avik6028 | GitHub: Lucifergene

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Somewhat a

“Technical Session”

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Let's get the Background Set…

Late 1990s

Late 2000s

2013 onwards

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Virtualization

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Rise of Containers and Docker

Application Code + Dependencies (Libraries/Packages) = Container

Docker : A tool to create Application Containers

Dockerfile: A file having the steps are mentioned for creating the container

DockerHub: A container Repository to upload Containers

• Linux Containers were present for a long period
• Docker Inc. introduced it to mainstream
• Other Tools Similar to Docker: Podman, Buildah, Kaniko

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Containerization

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Need for a Container Orchestrator

Kubernetes

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• What happens when you need to manage 100’s of containers together?
• How do you keep track of the health of each container throughout?
• How to make your application highly scalable and secure?

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Thanks for Joining!

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