Containers Survival Guide for Infrastructure
Containers are coming! Get ready now (if you haven’t already).
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Containers are an emerging trend in application packaging and delivery:
- Infrastructure is not prepared to host containers.
- Developers are already using them as an application development tool.
- Containers will soon become a standard in internal and external software delivery.
Adopting containers will help you achieve an efficient and agile application lifecycle:
- Consolidate workloads and maximize resource utilization.
- Eliminate overlap of responsibility between development and operations.
- Cut down on application development and deployment costs.
- Ensure application performance by packaging applications with dependencies.
- Deploy scalable and agile workloads.
Module 1: Identify the Need for Containers
The Purpose
- Discuss the anticipated benefits/concerns with containers with stakeholders.
- Assess enterprise workloads to identify deployment needs.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Establish a need for containers in the enterprise.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 1.1 | Explore business benefits of containers. |
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| 1.2 | Discuss container pain points/concerns. |
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| 1.3 | Assess container use in your organization. |
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| 1.4 | Complete Containers Assessment Workbook. |
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Module 2: Develop a Container Adoption Strategy
The Purpose
- Develop a short-term and long-term container adoption strategy.
- Assemble the ideal container software ecosystem.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Utilize current infrastructure for containers.
- Test container native infrastructure.
- Adopt a container software ecosystem that fits your organizational needs.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 2.1 | Compare containers and VMs |
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| 2.2 | Explore workload deployment needs. |
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| 2.3 | List initiatives to adopt containers on VM. |
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| 2.4 | Develop a bare-metal container pilot. |
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Module 3: Roadmap Your Container Adoption Plans
The Purpose
- Identify the tools needed to adopt containers.
- Prioritize initiatives for adopting containers.
- Build the Container Adoption Roadmap.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Select the tools that best fit your organization.
- Manage timelines for completing container adoption initiatives.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 3.1 | Assemble ideal container ecosystem. |
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| 3.2 | Build collective agreements document. |
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| 3.3 | Build container adoption roadmap. |
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| 3.4 | Prioritize roadmap initiatives. |
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Module 4: Assemble the Containers Executive Communications Report
The Purpose
- Assemble a Containers Executive Communications Report for stakeholders.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Effectively communicate your journey to adopting containers.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 4.1 | Identify and assemble the components of the Containers Executive Communications Report. |
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