Tim Potter
Tim has been using Debian since 0.91/3 and Linux since it was available on 3.5" floppies. He has been working at HP and HPE for the last 15 years on Linux and open source software.
Accepted Talks:
Come and discuss with other Debian users how you are, or would like to, use virtualisation and containerisation in Debian.
Another year has passed and HP's (now HPE) Debian derivative is another year older. In this presentation I will be talking about how HPE has been doubling down on Debian and the effects this has had on how open source software is being managed within the company. HPE Linux has consolidated many functions previously distributed (and duplicated!) within HPE, and is now acting as a middleman or proxy between many internal and external parties. The idea of the distro as a middleman will be explored and how this can be used to promote or propose using Debian in other organisations.
Containers and related technologies have emerged (or re-emerged depending on your point of view) as both a complement and substitute to virtualisation. The Debian Go Packaging Team has been hard at work packaging the latest releases of Docker, Kubernetes and Rocket to ensure that the Debian community can use DFSG-compliant versions of. This talk will discuss that challenges of packaging software in the Go language and show how containerisation actually plays to Debian's strengths as a stable, free and unencumbered operating system.