I’ve spent a lot of time with Amazon’s EC2 Container Service lately. While the service works well for the basic use case of deploying Docker containers in a cluster, there’s quite a few missing features that would make life easier if Amazon implemented.
The lack of IAM instance profiles for containers is probably the biggest issue for us. Without them, we have to go back to embedding access keys inside the application which introduces the whole mess of securely handling secrets.
I was lucky enough to be able to attend DockerCon 2015 in San Francisco this year. With over 2100 attendees it’s one of the biggest tech conferences I’ve been to and the first one outside of Australia. I learned a lot while I was there so I wanted to share my notes from the conference.
NOTE: As of 2015-05-26 This is still somewhat of a draft and may be updated
