Docker SF Meetup #54: Infinit by Julien Quintard
Channel: Docker
Date: 30/01/2017

Infinit: Modern Storage Platform for Container Environments

Abstract:

Providing state to applications in Docker requires a backend storage component that is both scalable and resilient in order to cope with a variety of use cases and failure scenarios. The Infinit Storage Platform has been designed to provide Docker applications with a set of interfaces (block, file and object) allowing for different tradeoffs. This talk will go through the design principles behind Infinit and demonstrate how the platform can be used to deploy a storage infrastructure through Docker containers in a few command lines.

Speaker Bio:

Julien Quintard, CEO of Infinit, is leading the development of the Infinit Storage Platform. Prior to Infinit, he was a PhD student at the University of Cambridge, researching the possibility to rely on millions of untrustworthy computers (Byzantine fault tolerance) to provide a reliable storage service (POSIX-compliant file system) in a completely decentralized way (peer-to-peer).

General: Docker is an open platform for developers and system administrators to build, ship and run distributed applications. With Docker, IT organizations shrink application delivery from months to minutes, frictionlessly move workloads between data centers and the cloud and can achieve up to 20X greater efficiency in their use of computing resources. Inspired by an active community and by transparent, open source innovation, Docker containers have been downloaded more than 700 million times and Docker is used by millions of developers across thousands of the world’s most innovative organizations, including eBay, Baidu, the BBC, Goldman Sachs, Groupon, ING, Yelp, and Spotify. Docker’s rapid adoption has catalyzed an active ecosystem, resulting in more than 180,000 “Dockerized” applications, over 40 Docker-related startups and integration partnerships with AWS, Cloud Foundry, Google, IBM, Microsoft, OpenStack, Rackspace, Red Hat and VMware.