In a World of Ephemeral Containers, How Do We Keep Track of Things?
Channel: OpenInfra Foundation
Date: 29/10/2015

This talk is on trends for keeping state in clusters of ephemeral containers. Containers are a popular new way to deploy applications. Containers give you benefits like standard container formats, resource isolation, and easy to use deployment tools. However, there are a number of caveats to using containers. One caveat is that many benefits require you to be careful about how you store application state.

Containers are normally managed in such a way that they can be started and stopped easily