LinuxCon + CloudOpen + ContainerCon NA 2015

The Mythical App Container (Robert Schweikert, SUSE) - Containers, and more specifically Docker, are the talk of the town. The excitement about containers is very prevalent and one could be lulled into believing that containers are the answer to all questions. However, taking a closer look at the purported solution to application portability issues shows that the solution to one problem, application portability, creates other problems, content management and container management in general. This talk will take a more critical look at the advertised solution of portable applications containers and highlight problems created by this approach. Solutions to these problems are not straight forward and do not necessarily fit well with the current model of distribution for open source or proprietary software.