It was all about the future of containers at the Bangalore Container Conference

Bangalore Container Conference (BCC), held on April 7 at Bengaluru, was India’s first conference focused on container technologies, and attracted more than 250 delegates.

“Containers are eating the world. It has been Docker, Docker, everywhere for the last few years,” said Hari Kiran, one of the organisers of the Bangalore Container Conference (BCC) and co-founder of CodeOps Technologies.

When asked about what prompted him to conduct an event like BCC, Kiran told Open Source For You, “Given the fact that there is substantial interest in container technologies among developers in India, we realised that the time is ripe for organising India’s first conference on this topic.”

All the tickets for BCC 2017 were sold out a month before the conference date. The conference hosted Evan Powell, chairman of OpenEBS, and Ian Lewis, developer advocate at Google, who travelled from the US and Japan, respectively. Both the experts were featured at the keynote sessions.

In his opening address, Powell spoke about the relationship between

DevOps and containers. He explained how the DevOps industry is expected to significantly benefit from the container ecosystem and its technologies.

Lewis began his keynote on ‘standards-based containerisation with Kubernetes’ and explained why standards are important. He elaborated on how they allow interoperability between systems and the right level of abstraction at each part of the stack.

Organisations are increasingly adopting containers and related technologies in production and want to learn from others’ successes, failures and best practices. Hence, the theme chosen for the conference was ‘Containers in production’.

Following the talks by the experts, there was a panel discussion on using containers in production. The conference also featured two workshops. Open Source For You was the media partner for the event.