Who Lives in Our Garden: Understanding Cloud Foundry’s Container Manager
Channel: Cloud Foundry
Date: 2016-10-07

Who Lives in Our Garden: Understanding Cloud Foundry’s Container Manager - Maksim Zhylinski & Alexander Lomov, Altoros

Container technology has been a hot topic for years. With all its benefits and advantages, containers are often not well understood. The Garden container manager is a major component of Cloud Foundry and Diego, which it has already outgrown the boundaries of Cloud Foundry. Today, it is being used in a number independent projects. This talk is going to answer your most frequently asked questions about Garden, including: What is the difference between Docker and Garden? How secure Garden is? What do I need to know about security of Cloud Foundry containers? How to work with them? How can I use and benefit from Garden in my project? What are the best practices? How about the typical traps?

About Alexander Lomov
Alexander Lomov is a Cloud Foundry Engineer at Altoros. With extensive experience in Ruby, Go, and Python, he was involved in development of several BOSH CPIs and a number of other Cloud Foundry-related projects. A fan of the open source movement, Alexander has contributed to BOSH, Admin UI, Fog, etc.

About Maksim Zhylinski
Maksim Zhylinski is a Cloud Foundry Engineer at Altoros. He is an expert in cloud computing, networking, and Cloud Foundry BOSH, having worked on multiple BOSH CPIs, releases, and service brokers. Maksim has 6+ years of experience in all things Ruby, JavaScript, and Go, as well as extensive skills in server and client-side Web application development. He is an active member of Ruby and Go communities and a frequent contributor to open-source projects. Recent speaking experience: "Containers: What's Under the Hood," Cloud Foundry Meetup in Minsk