Christian Posta (@christianposta) is a Principal Middleware Specialist/Architect at Red Hat and well known for being an author, frequent blogger, speaker, and open-source enthusiast. He is the author of Microservices by Example (O’Reilly June 2016) and committer on open-source projects Apache ActiveMQ and Apache Camel, Fabric8.io, and others. Christian has spent a great deal of time working with large companies creating and deploying large scale distributed architectures - many of what are now called Microservices based. He enjoys mentoring, training and leading teams to be successful with distributed systems concepts, microservices, devops, and cloud-native application design.
Containers are enabling developers to package their applications in new ways that are portable and work consistently everywhere: on your machine, in production, in your data center, and in the cloud. And Docker has become the de facto standard for those portable containers in the cloud. This workshop offers developers an intro-level hands-on session with Docker, from installation to exploring Docker Hub, to crafting their own images, to adding Java apps and running custom containers. This is a BYOL (bring your own laptop) session, so bring your Windows, OS X, or Linux laptop and be ready to dig into a tool that promises to be at the forefront of our industry for some time to come.
