[kwlug-disc] [kwlug-announce] Meeting Monday: Docker Workshop (7pm, April 2016, attempt 2)

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> From: Paul Nijjar <pauln at theworkingcentre.org>
> To: kwlug-announce at kwlug.org
> Sent: Friday, April 1, 2016 8:54 PM
> Subject: [kwlug-announce] Meeting Monday: Docker Workshop (7pm, April 2016,	attempt 2)
> 
> In February 2015, Tim Laurence gave us an overview of the popular Docker 
> containerization platform. By popular demand, this month he will follow up on 
> that presentation with an interactive workshop. We will work through basic 
> Docker commands, setting up dockerfiles, dealing with networking and more. 
> 
> Because this workshop is interactive, Tim has homework for us. Those of us who 
> are following along should bring our laptops preconfigured with Virtualbox and 
> Docker according to Tim's instructions here: 
> 
> https://github.com/timdaman/docker-tutorial
> 
> Ominously, Tim writes: "Tell people to be prepared or else. ;)" which 
> I am hoping is code for "Tim won't wait for people to get set up at the 
> beginning of the presentation."
> 
> If you would like to participate in the workshop but do not have a suitable 
> laptop, contact me (or the kwlug-disc mailing list) and we can see what we can 
> do. Maybe people can work together and maybe we can prepare a couple of laptops 
> with the appropriate software installed on them.


FWIW, I don't expect to bring my laptop - I'll be well satisfied by observing what others go through. Mostly I expect to work on just grokking the nature of this beastie.

Happy to help anyone, but don't need to actively participate / be in a group to get value from the night.