Mandi Walls, Chef Software
Container Orchestration Systems make for a great operational experience for deploying and management of containers. But that’s only part of the story when running containers in production. How do you build containers that contain only what you need (like no build systems/tools)? How do you orchestrate configuration of your application after the containers have been launched? How do you make it easy to modify an application config while keeping the containers immutable? How can you give your developers a means to declare dependencies for their applications?
Habitat, our open-source project for application automation, simplifies container management by packaging applications in a compact, atomic, and easily auditable format that makes it easier to deploy your application on various container runtimes and manage them over their lifecycle.
Mandi Walls, Chef Software
Mandi Walls is Technical Community Manager, EMEA at Chef. For Chef, she travels the world helping technology organizations increase their effectiveness using configuration management and modern IT practices. She is a regular speaker at technical conferences, and is the author of the whitepaper “Building a DevOps Culture” published by O’Reilly. She is interested in the emergence of new tools and workflows to make the task of operating large complex computing systems more approachable.
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author = {Mandi Walls},
title = {Application Automation with Habitat},
year = {2017},
address = {Dublin},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = aug
}