Containerised deployments have rapidly become an industry wide standard.

We use container engines such as Docker to develop and deploy our applications on a daily basis. Many businesses depend on this technology to survive - but do we understand how they work?

This talk aims at demystifying concepts and terms such as cgroups, namespaces and “lightweight virtual machines”.

By writing a container from the ground up we will discover that a container is simply a sandboxed Linux process.

Audience members will walk away with

• Understanding the underlying concepts of containers.
• Learn how to implement a container from scratch.
• Understand the pros and cons of this technology and what it can do for your startup / business.