[TriLUG] August 13th: Mark McCahill on Linux Containers for Learning

[Steve Litt via TriLUG]

I can't justify a 650 mile each-way drive to attend. I'd drive 150
miles each way, but not 650. Is there any way people can attend, or just
watch, this meeting over the Internet?

Thanks, and *really cool subject*!!!

SteveT

Steve Litt 
August 2015 featured book: Troubleshooting: Just the Facts
http://www.troubleshooters.com/tjust



On Thu, 13 Aug 2015 08:14:02 -0400
Matthew Frazier via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:

> Topic: Linux Containers for Learning
> Presenter: Mark McCahill
> When: Thursday, August 13, 2015 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm
> Where: Bandwidth, Venture III, 900 Main Campus Dr, Raleigh, NC 27606
> Parking: Venture Center Deck, adjacent to Venture III on Venture
> Center Way (visitor spaces are unrestricted after 5pm)
> <http://osm.org/go/ZYRUokxgI-->
> 
> Synopsis
> 
> Duke University provides access to a wide variety of Linux
> applications, for student projects, teaching, and research. Besides
> provisioning hundreds of traditional Linux VM's each semester, Duke
> is taking advantage of emerging container technologies to host
> applications.
> 
> This presentation will explore a few of the technologies and tools
> Duke has used for application delivery, including the 350 Ubuntu
> containers running on Docker that host R and RStudio for statistics
> courses, and the 
> noVNC/OpenBox solution used to embed X Windows applications in users'
> Web browsers. (Source code for some of this technology will be
> available on GitHub.) It will also discuss more generally the
> strategy and the tradeoffs involved in providing virtualized
> applications - especially when you have to give sudo access to
> students.
> 
> Speaker Bio
> 
> Mark McCahill works at Duke University's Office of Information
> Technology, as an architect for e-learning and collaborative systems.
> He was involved in the development and popularization of early
> Internet technologies - most notably at the University of Minnesota,
> where he led the team that developed Gopher. He is also interested in
> virtual worlds, developing the GopherVR system for organizing
> Gopher information spatially, and serving  as an architect of the
> Croquet project.