How Container Schedulers and Software-based Storage Will Change the Cloud

Explore how container schedulers and software-based storage are revolutionizing cloud computing in this 47-minute talk by David vonThenen from {code} by Dell EMC. Delve into the complexities of managing persistent applications at scale and learn why modern schedulers like Apache Mesos are ideal for these tasks. Discover the emerging trend of running traditionally persistent applications such as databases, key/value stores, and WordPress within containers. Examine the challenges of operating these applications and containers in production environments, considering both internal direct attached storage and external storage options. Gain insights into the concept of 2 Layer Scheduling, also known as the Offer-Accept model, and understand how it works in conjunction with software-based storage to enable deployment of managed frameworks and tasks. Learn how this combination of technologies facilitates high availability, scale-out growth, and automation, potentially leading to a "Skynet"-like architecture for persistent applications and containers in the cloud.