For our August event we are pleased to announce Kickass development environments with Docker by David McKay! With pizzas provided by Sharpe Recruitment, venue provided by Campus North and additional sponsorship from Opia.

The event will take place at the Auditorium, Bunker Coffee, Carliol Square, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 6UF (map).

The event is free and open to all, but please sign up online so that we have an idea of numbers for the venue and catering. Feedback, suggestions and ideas for future topics are welcome on Twitter.

Kickass development environments with Docker - David McKay

Docker, the hottest technology around at the moment. It swept the Ops world by storm in 2014, became mainstream in 2015, and now it’s set to dominate the developer world, in 2016.

Docker is a tool that allows you to package your application up into a single-runnable distributable binary - akin to the phar, but in Hulk mode. Docker allows you, a developer, to specify the exact environment your application needs to run, across development; test; staging; and production.

In this session I will cover the creation of this utopian distributable and show you how to can compose your entire production infrastructure locally with only a small YAML file and without installing a single thing.

Lets say hello, to Docker.

After the event, many of us will be going to the Warerooms next door, for some liquid refreshments.