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Docker is taking the DevOps world by storm. It has moved from “cool DevOps tool” to “lots of attention at the highest levels in the enterprise” in record time. One of the key discussion points when introducing docker, however, is how that will interact with the rest of your configuration management picture. Some people have claimed that the docker model greatly reduces the need for traditional CM; others disagree and feel that’s too simplistic an approach. (If you aren’t sure what docker is yet, check out Karthik’s recent Webcast Why To Docker? for an intro.)
What we want to do here at the Agile Admin is collect a diversity of experiences on this! Therefore we are declaring a blog roundup on this topic where we’ll publish a bunch of articles on the topic. And we’d love for any of you out there to participate!
Come Blog With Us
Just email us (ernest dot mueller at theagileadmin.com works) or reply in the comments to this post saying “I will write something on this!” and we’ll publish your thoughts on the topic here on The Agile Admin. We’ll be starting this roundup in about a week and looking to finish up by the end of November. We’re specifically soliciting some authors to write on the topic, but we also want all of you in the DevOps community to get your say in. We can set you up as an author here in our WordPress, or you can write in Word or whatnot and mail it in, either way. Make sure and include a brief blurb about who you are at the end!
Fun and Prizes!
StackEngine has generously agreed to sponsor this roundup, and the best community post (we’ll choose one) by Nov 30 will win a LEGO Millenium Falcon to show off their geek cred! And very soon even your kids will know what it is.
So please let us know you’d like to participate, and then write an article – really anything touching on docker and config management is fine, even “we started to look into docker and stopped because we couldn’t figure out how to slot it in with our existing CM,” or “the simplicity of dockerfiles makes me swear off CM forever” or “golden images are the way to go” or “who needs docker anyway if you have a stellar chef implementation you get the same benefits…” No restrictions (other than those good taste and professionalism dictate). Heck, other containerization technologies than docker per se are fine too. “Containers, CM, what do you know?” No length requirements, and you can have images and videos and stuff, that’s all great.
We know keeping up a whole blog is a lot of work many technologists don’t have time for, so this is our first experiment in letting other great DevOps folks who may want to write an article every once in a while without the hassle of running their own thing use The Agile Admin to get their post out to a decent-sized audience. Come on down, we’re friendly!
And thanks to StackEngine for sponsoring the roundup! They are an Austin startup that’s all about Docker tooling. Fellow Agile Admin Karthik and Boyd, who many of you know from the Austin-and-wider DevOps scene, are part of the SE team, which vouches for their awesomeness.
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