The number of enterprises using containers in production is a small fraction of those exploring the technology. What’s holding back widespread adoption?
Three cloud all-stars will offer some thoughts. First, Derek Collison of Apcera will ask: “Is the VM dead?" Reclaiming the hypervisor’s roughly 15% overhead is compelling, but is that enough to kill the VM? As with many things in IT, the answer is, “it depends.”
Next up, CloudStack pioneer and Rancher founder Sheng Liang will explore the potential advantages of leveraging OpenStack’s massive ecosystem with Docker’s alluring potential and a growing community. If there is room to work together, what might that Docker+OpenStack super-ecosystem look like?
James Watters of Pivotal will then ask, “Do enterprises really care about the underlying container technology?” Docker, Rocker, LXC, Warden—most line-of-business buyers see contains as a building block for PaaS. They want features further up the stack that let them build software faster. James will talk about why this matters for container business models, as well as some potential exceptions (think: finserv).
Magnum Project Technical Lead Adrian Otto will offer an update on the status of OpenStack’s main containers initiative.
Frederic Lardinois will then moderate a Q&A session with these four to explore their ideas in greater depth.