It Works on My Machine! How Container Technologies Like Docker Can Revolutionize Continuous Integration

One of the trickier problems in software delivery is environment disparity. How does one implement a consistent release and testing process when you deal with platforms as varied as developer laptops, virtual servers and large enterprise production environments? Why does it seem there are never enough environments to really do automated testing? And without automated testing, how do you deliver software that actually works the first time without wasting the time of your QA team or, even worse, affecting production? Depending on your environment, container engines like Docker can solve many of these problems. This talk will give a practical demonstration of how to implement Docker in your continuous integration pipeline and demonstrate the benefits of using container engines in the continuous integration process.

Glenn Brown is a DevOps consultant for Maven Wave Partners. He has over 20 years experience in information technology and has done Release Engineering for over a decade at companies like JP Morgan Chase, The Savo Group and Orbitz. He lives in Chicago with his wife and daughter who are the apples of his eye and his cat who eats him out of house and home.