 My name is Mike McGrath and I'm currently managing architect for the platform group working on containers and OpenShift and all the new things that are coming in RHEL Atomic is a project that started upstream in the community as a place for Red Hat to land all of its new container technology work and so that work ends up in all kinds of different products including stuff like OpenShift and it ends up in Atomichost and RHEL But the reason that someone wants to come to Atomic to use it is primarily for container purposes either for development with containers or possibly operations work with containers Atomichost is the is our first productization of container technology that comes from the Atomic project at projectatomic.io and the interesting thing about Atomichost is as Takes a lot of our traditional RHEL technologies, especially in the kernel and it container it allows you to build container as applications and Deploy them on to Atomichost which is a container optimized platform And I think that that is interesting for both developers and operations alike Atomichost as this released in RHEL is fully supported today and ready for production workloads But there are a lot of people that may want to look upstream to Fedora Where we also have a community edition of Atomichost and even downstream in Centos We have a unsupported version of Atomichost Fedora's edition of Atomichost is really special It's a place where we're doing all of our work upstream We release every two weeks and it's the fastest moving operating system Red Hat has to offer And we make major changes there in terms of Docker Kubernetes and sometimes even in the kernel And one of the things that makes Atomichost so great is that you have the ability to roll back if you've accidentally Found a bug or you've moved too fast for what you want to do You can always roll back to the previous version and you're good to go the introduction of containers to development workflows added a really great tool for developers to build a Single unit that can then be given to operations and sent around and built so it's a self-contained unit What we're doing with Atomic and the container optimized operating systems is taking a lot of that same workflow and applying it at the operating system level This will allow you to basically version control not just the container that you're using But also the actual operating system It's deployed on and that allows you to make sure that you have version locking all throughout your deployment and to make sure There's no surprises from one end to the other I think one of the most important inventions probably in the last ten years in terms of developer tools has been the container imaging format That format which is what Docker invented allows developers to build an artifact or build an application And then send that individual container through the full production workflow through staging through the production And they know that whether or not it's in stage of production It's the identical artifact and it's the one that they built and this really helps get rid of the hole Well, it worked on my laptop scenario and and builds a workflow that works for both developers and operators Another really interesting thing for operators who are using containers today is this whole paradigm that they'll remember from the early 2000s During the rpm find days where if you needed a dependency or some new thing you'd go and google it and download it And who knows who built it or if it works or if it was made by some hacker in Russia But they go and find it and install it and we see a lot of that today With the upstream Docker repository, which is a great place for developers to share content But it doesn't necessarily make it the right place for you to be downloading those things and that's where red hat comes in Right, I mean that's our our biggest addition to all this is the ability to certify not just what is on the operating system Which we've been doing for two decades now But also what's in the container from the container all the way through to the hardware Project atomic started as a place for us to build our new container world containers have had a really big impact on red hat and The introduction of atomic host was really just the starting point of all of this container ecosystem that we've been building I think what people will find over the next coming years are Additional tools built around helping operators and developers build better Applications deploy them better deploy them faster and I think most importantly I have a better idea of what's going on inside of their environment Whether or not that's doing upgrades to thousands of machines at once and making sure it all worked To the ability to just understand what is running in your environment at any point in time And we're seeing this in the upstream project with lots of new components being created like commas air which is a way to coordinate very basic cluster functions inside of an atomic host and you're also seeing things like that upstream in Kubernetes where Clustering options are available for building applications via these application templates And it's a it's a really great time to be building and working in containers And I'd encourage anybody who is interested to go to project atomic.io for more information this is a really exciting time for containers and there's a lot of very interesting work going on upstream at project atomic.io and For any developers or operators who are interested in getting involved that's your starting place to go And I look forward to seeing you there