Modernize or Die® Conference - Jon Clausen - Containerizing CFML Applications - ITB2020 - Episode 7

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Gavin Pickin interviews Jon Clausen, one of the creators of the CommandBox Docker Images, Senior Software Developer for  Ortus Solutions, about his Containerizing CFML Applications Workshop at Into the Box 2020 in Houston Texas, May 2020.

Find out what the workshop is about, why you should attend, what you need to know before you attend and what you'll learn while you're there.

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Transcript:

Gavin Pickin (00:31):
Welcome to the Modernize or Die Podcast, Conference Edition. And today I'm talking with Jon Clausen about his workshop at, Into the Box in May. And so, uh, Jon, thank you for joining me.

Jon Clausen (00:41):
Absolutely. My pleasure.

Gavin Pickin (00:42):
Your workshop is Containerizing CFML application. So do you want to tell us a little more about it?

Jon Clausen (00:49):
Well, it's, I mean, as we all know and are aware at this point, if you're, if you're not aware, you're kind of living in a kind of a tunnel or something, but the container space just continues to expand and blow up. And there are a lot of options available to you now. And even since last year, we've got, you know, more expanded usage of a lot of different containerization strategies. What we want to do is provide one day of giving, users, CFML developers, an opportunity to understand how to containerize their applications, what are the logistics of it, you know, software, you know, hardware, requirements, things like that. How to, actually, deploy your code in those containers. And then how to handle, consistency between multiple tiers of your applications deployment. So from development to staging production. So we'll start off the day by giving you an overview of containers... and then as we go through the day, we'll actually do more and more things with it, to the point where by the end of the session, you will have started the process or possibly even have finished the process of containerizing one of your own applications. With its dependencies in a stacked environment. So it's a very hands on workshop. There's certainly a lot of information, so you know, come prepared to learn. But it's also something that, I think a lot of developers who have taken the workshops in the past have found very useful and has helped to jump start them in their own containerization strategies.

Gavin Pickin (02:18):
So obviously you mentioned earlier on containerization is big these days. Is there anything else that you think people should know? Like why is this workshop really important for CFML developers or developers in general?

Jon Clausen (02:30):
I think for CFML developers in general, I think that there's many of us who've been developing a language for a long time who started on bare metal hardware, big old monolithic servers, where all of our dependencies were packaged as one. And I think, I don't know that, five years from now you're going to have the tools you need to do your job, if, especially if you're a full stack CFML developer without at least understanding containers. So I think that's part of it. I think that it's an important technology to lear