Yesterday was another great day in San Francisco and VMworld 2014. The big takeaway I had revolved around Docker and VMware integration. There is a great article over on the Office of the CTO blog regarding this exact topic. Two key takeaways the CEO of Docker said during his portion (paraphrased):

  • Use VMs for security and consistency and use Docker for speed of deployment.
  • Docker + VMware gets you the best of both worlds when utilized together

There are some exciting things, like Project Fargo, going on in the space right now that should enable Operations teams to incorporate Docker into their existing environments to give their applications the flexibility next-generation apps and engineering teams are starting to require.

Beyond the sessions, the CTO party last night was really amazing! Lots of networking and conversations were taking place and I was able to gain some good insight into how Mesos could be used to replace YARN. I am excited to follow-up on several of the conversations last night.