Getting a Hold of the Hype: Making Containers Useful with Project Atomic
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The LISA conference has long served as the annual vendor-neutral meeting place for the wider system administration community. The LISA14 program recognized the overlap and differences between traditional and modern IT operations and engineering, and developed a highly-curated program around 5 key topics: Systems Engineering, Security, Culture, DevOps, and Monitoring/Metrics. The program included 22 half- and full-day training sessions; 10 workshops; and a conference program consisting of 50 invited talks, panels, refereed paper presentations, and mini-tutorials.
Brian Proffitt, Red Hat
Virtualization was the next Big Thing. Then cloud. Now, containers are at the peak of hype, led by the excitement surrounding Docker. But is this hype justified, or can innovation be tempered and improved by better management and control? This is the problem Project Atomic hopes to solve.
Brian Proffitt, Red Hat

Brian Proffitt is a Community Liaison for the oVirt Project at Red Hat and helped launch Project Atomic in 2014. The author of 22 books on Linux, iOS, and even a brief work on Plato, Brian is an adjunct instructor at the University of Notre Dame, living in his native Indiana with his wife and three daughters.
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author = {Brian Proffitt},
title = {Getting a Hold of the Hype: Making Containers Useful with Project Atomic},
year = {2014},
address = {Seattle, WA},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = nov
}
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