Building containers without Docker

Ship It! SRE, Platform Engineering, DevOps

We’re back! Jason Hall joins the show to tell Justin & Autumn all about how Chainguard builds hundreds of containers without a single Dockerfile.

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Featuring:

• Jason Hall – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Justin Garrison – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Autumn Nash – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

• Chainguard images
• Microservices vs Monoliths
• Using AI imagery to fight spacial apartheid

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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1. This is Ship It! (00:00:00)

2. The opener (00:00:50)

3. Sponsor: Sentry (00:05:55)

https://sentry.io/

4. Welcoming Jason Hall (00:09:24)

5. The release process (00:10:48)

6. Patching story (00:12:29)

7. What is upstream? (00:13:57)

8. CVE reporting (00:14:40)

9. Benefits of removing Docker files (00:16:17)

10. Building on different architectures (00:19:54)

11. Surprises moving to Terraform (00:21:04)

12. Break stuff (00:24:58)

13. Why Terraform? (00:27:35)

14. Hardening images (00:30:04)

15. Expectations after minification (00:32:35)

16. Impact of dependencies (00:35:15)

17. Why APK? (00:35:59)

18. Where to find more (00:39:46)

19. Sponsor: Synadia (00:41:06)

https://www.synadia.com/changelog

20. The closer (00:46:16)

21. On the next episode (join ++!) (00:55:49)

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