All, Here's some late-breaking, additional reading you might consider looking at prior to Thursday's discussion ... Ben Gross of IST-EIS notes his team's use of Vagrant <http://www.vagrantup.com/> for provisioning reproducible and portable dev environments. The author of Vagrant is the same fellow who wrote Packer (Mitchell Hashimoto), who weighs in on a great Stack Overflow back-and-forth<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16647069/should-i-use-vagrant-or-docker-io-for-creating-an-isolated-environment>that looks at differences between and appropriate applications of Docker and Vagrant. Ben also points out a nice summary with examples on the topic of *Advanced Provisioning With Packer For Docker And Vagrant <http://mmckeen.net/blog/2013/12/27/advanced-docker-provisioning-with-packer/>*by UCLA CS student Matthew McKeen, which will help to orient readers to the relationships between these tools/projects.
It should be a very interesting discussion on Thursday, and certainly not the last we'll have on the topic of virtualization. See you there, Steve On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 8:13 AM, Steve MASOVER <[email protected]> wrote: > All, > > At this Thursday's reading group (noon to 1pm on April 10th), we'll talk > about virtualization of machines for research and instruction/education. > > Dav Clark of the D-Lab, which maintains Collaboratool / Berkeley > Computational Environment <http://collaboratool.berkeley.edu> -- compute > environments for portable, reproducible data science -- will kick off > discussion that will also include Ben Gross of IST-EIS (Endpoint > Engineering and Infrastructure). We hope that Owen McGrath of ETS > (Educational Technology Services) will also be able to join us. > > Short readings are: > > About Collaboratool > <http://collaboratool.berkeley.edu/meta-features.html>("meta-features") > > About Docker <https://www.docker.io/learn_more/> -- Docker is software > that permits applications to run in a container that can itself be > reproduced and run on any of multiple machines & platforms > > A use case describing how Docker has been applied in a higher-ed > instructional > context<http://blog.docker.io/2014/04/docker-in-education-interview/> > > About Packer <http://www.packer.io/intro> -- Packer is a tool for > creating machine images -- please read the four short "About" section pages > starting with the linked page, http://www.packer.io/intro > > > See you Thursday at noon in Rm 200C, Warren Hall... > > ~Steve > > > > > -- > Steve Masover > IST Research Information Technologies > [email protected] > 510-642-8488 > -- Steve Masover IST Research Information Technologies [email protected] 510-642-8488
