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The grand opening of DockerCon 2017
It’s early morning on the day before the official opening of DockerCon ‘17. Pre-conference activities are buzzing, but one room is different; Outside this room a breakfast buffet is set up - and it’s good. Whoever is invited here is in for a treat.
It’s the Docker Meetup Organizers Summit.
No scratch that - it turns out that Docker is rebranding this initiative. We’re now officially referred to as Community Leaders. Smart move - I feel proud. I’ll even work for that title. And we get our own T-shirt! When I say we I’m referring to the 65 people who showed up in a room that takes - well 65 people, apparently. Not a single seat is free.
Karen Bajza - the legendary community whip, who we all know from countless of helpful emails and reach outs, is here in person.
Karen Bajza
Karen asks every single one of us to stand up one after the other to present who we are, what Docker chapter we represent and maybe share a personal non-Docker related fun-fact. It turns out the room is packed with mountainbikers, snowboarders, IoT freaks, musicians, collectors, soon-to-become-fathers, and TED Talk organizer.
The first row of the audience seats seven people, they represent meet-up groups in Aarhus, Saint Louis, Riyad, Grenoble, Prague and Melbourne.
Wow! This is an impressively diverse group - seen from the perspective of national representation at least - I start counting as we continue;
Sevilla, Heidenberg, Tokyo, Liege, Stockholm, Rio de Janeiro, Milan, Moscow, Copenhagen, Durban, Nice, Warsaw, Bamberg, Zürich, Santiago, Nantes, Budapest, Malmö, Stuttgart, Luxembourg, Mannheim, Toulouse, a city in Siberia I can’t pronounce, Buenos Aires, Virginia Beach, Blackburn VA, Manchester, Rome, Tour, Lyon, Cambridge, Amsterdam, Saint Louis…
All in all 65 participants representing 40 different cities out of 304 registered groups in total worldwide.
Bevy - the flipper
After the introductions Karen announces the new rebrand from “Organizers” to “Community Leaders”. The name change shall signal, that the volunteers running the meet-ups are so much more than just event organizers; they are trainers, facilitators, Docker enthusiasts. It’s supposed to feel like a promotion. It does. “Community Leader” - hmmm it tastes good!
Karen also reveals the new community mascot “Bevy” which has been long under way, but is now ready to swim. It’s a Dolphin - spinning plates, and stuff. Dolphins are whales too - we will welcome “Bevy”.
Niamh Fiona O’Byrne
Niamh Fiona O’Byrne comes on stage - the name might indicate that she’s Irish. She is. “It doesn’t get more Irish than that” is her opening statement. To top up, her dialect is as Irish as her name and with her flaming red hair - she’s a bunch of energy - a morning wake-up call. She takes off her jacket to reveal a T-shirt as red as her hair - the print says Get 🐳 Certified - She’s here to tell us about the newly launched Professional Docker Certification program.
The vision is to build a wide base of certified people - like a pyramid of graduation - that starts with Docker Certified Associates and on top of that Professional and Master certifications will become available.
The first program Docker Certified Associate will require about 6-12 months of experience. It’s a test that consist of 55 questions, it can be taken online - even at your own home. Niamh explains, that a person will monitor your workspace as you work, to begin with you will pan the room with your camera and show that you are alone - then you are good to go.
Results will be delivered immediately after the questions are answered, the price is $195/€175 and you will be offered to enter into a program as beta tester on upcoming new certifications. And of course, you will get a T-shirt, a pin, and your portrait on the website.
The certification is valid for two years - Docker hasn’t defined the re-certification process yet - but it might be that you will be rewarded for attending Docker conferences.
Be among the first people in the world to become certified in Docker; At the DockerCon here in Copenhagen, you can register for the exam in room 178 and the actual examination will take place in room 179. Browse the Study guide if you want to get a sneak peak at what’s expected.
A question came up:
- Does Community Leaders get a discount?
- Yes!
The rest of the program is sharing tips and tricks. Marcos and Jonathan showed us the Docker playground, a fast interactive and fun way to learn Docker. It now supports OpenID, it used to be hosted on AWS but has moved to Azure and now includes Windows containers - pick up more at training.play-with-docker.com and github.com/play-with-docker
Kevin from the CPH meetup group shares some of his experiences.
Sgt. Phil Esterhaus:
“Let’s be careful out there”
Finally, to wrap up the Summit before we go for lunch and have our group photo taken, we get some DockerCon tips from DockerCon alumnis - it plays almost like an episode of Hill Street Blues:
Thanks for organizing this, Karen!
What’s happening during the official first day of DockerCon?
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Training the Next Generation of Software Developers
Continuous Delivery Academy: a modern software training for students
This is a conference in Gothenburg for software developers, especially those with some experience of agile and a desire to improve their skills.
Technical Agile Conference
Industry experts and pioneers visit Gothenburg
Jenkins is one of the best adverts for open source and at Eficode Praqma we have been using it since the very beginning. We enjoy giving something back to the community by hosting Day of Jenkins, and this year’s event was packed with exciting developments. Read on!
Celebrating Jenkins and open source collaboration
Day of Jenkins [as code] - A summary
Continuous Delivery and DevOps are here to stay and not because they’re being practiced by trendsetting unicorn companies. The fact is science tells us that these approaches work and this year’s conference gave us lots of examples.
CoDe-Conf 2018
Continuous Delivery and DevOps - Not Just For Unicorns
DevOpsDays Copenhagen 2018 was a great success. Inspiring talks and a pleasant community. I had the pleasure of being the host of this event. I decided to kick off the event with a song about DevOps. See the video and lyrics here.
The DevOpsDays Copenhagen 2018 Song
A whole new (DevOps) world
Once again the contributors and major players in the Git ecosystem are gathered. Read along for news, announcements and stories from Git Merge 2018.
Report from Git Merge 2018
Blogging from the Git Merge Conference at MACBA in Barcelona
We strive to continuously improve, so the 8th gathering in our Continuous Delivery Alliance will feature all the good things from the 7th meeting in a slightly evolved format.
CoDe Alliance goes code camp
Continuously improving our format
We had our 7th gathering in the CoDe Alliance a few months ago and have worked to distill and evolve many of the good ideas that came out of our sessions. Our aim is to turn our interesting discussions into tangible projects and running code.
The 7th gathering
What’s next for the CoDe Alliance?
Albert Rigo shares his thoughts on the Atlassian Accelerator Day in Copenhagen, and how he learned to quickly and comfortably scale Atlassian Data Center, upgrade with zero downtime and stop spending his weekends upgrading JIRA.
Atlassian Accelerator Day in CPH
A day to learn how to scale fast and upgrade without downtime
Let’s talk about Eiffel - the traceability protocol, not the programming language. As we are attending the Eiffel Summit, we let you in on how the big companies work with traceability, and on the latest collaborative projects.
The Eiffel Summit report
Follow our blog from the 2017 Eiffel Summit
This November the Continuous Delivery Alliance gathers for the 7th time. Do you want to join forces with some of the best people in the world of Continuous Delivery and collaborate on the next generation of tools? Then join the Alliance!
State of the Alliance
Continuous Delivery Alliance - Prepare to launch some rockets!
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Training the Next Generation of Software Developers
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