The New Stack Podcast

Shannon Williams, Rancher Labs: Breakfast and Briefings at AWS re:Invent

Episode Summary

Rancher Labs is an OSS project offering private container services. The team at Rancher Labs is currently working on storage, helping people develop app catalogs, and management platforms for how they deploy things such as Docker compose templates. Rancher Labs released Convoy last month, allowing for container snapshots and backup to be sent to data stores and ran/recovered from cloud to cloud within the next month. Shannon Williams is the co-founder at Rancher Labs. He noted that Rancher Labs has seen an enormous demand for persistent storage when working in containers. This ranged from users running ephemeral cloud apps to deployments of 3 tier non-microservice SQL database back-ends. Convoy's container snapshots and backup works very well, allowing for users to disconnect a volume in container from the volume itself. If container host fails, it can then persist on local/mirror/EDS storage. This is a solution for not only next-gen applications, but legacy apps. These features help Rancher Labs users to accelerate their team's innovation, along with changing the speed at which users can modify applications they are deploying.

Episode Notes

Rancher Labs is an OSS project offering private container services. The team at Rancher Labs is currently working on storage, helping people develop app catalogs, and management platforms for how they deploy things such as Docker compose templates. Rancher Labs released Convoy last month, allowing for container snapshots and backup to be sent to data stores and ran/recovered from cloud to cloud within the next month.

Shannon Williams is the co-founder at Rancher Labs. He noted that Rancher Labs has seen an enormous demand for persistent storage when working in containers. This ranged from users running ephemeral cloud apps to deployments of 3 tier non-microservice SQL database back-ends. Convoy's container snapshots and backup works very well, allowing for users to disconnect a volume in container from the volume itself. If container host fails, it can then persist on local/mirror/EDS storage. This is a solution for not only next-gen applications, but legacy apps. These features help Rancher Labs users to accelerate their team's innovation, along with changing the speed at which users can modify applications they are deploying.