On April 19 & 20, we (ad)ventured into the cloud & container lands. First, on Friday evening jackie gave hir talk titled Shine some light through this cloud. A short primer on clouds and cloud computing (the link leads to the slide deck), and in the following discussion we already talked a lot about the difference of full virtualisation and containerisation.
Then on Saturday afternoon we gathered again to go through a Docker Intro Workshop (link again leads to the slide deck of the workshop). In it we started by looking in to the basics of containerisation and how it works specifically with Docker.
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