LCE-EU 2015

When containerizing applications, the traditional approach calls for putting each component into its own container which does just the one thing, listens on one or few ports, and stores its configuration and data in a single location. Then we need to add a way to tie these containerized components together into a working solution. However, how about applications whose purpose is to integrate multiple components and daemons, packaging them into one working solution?

FreeIPA is such an application, bringing easy WebUI and CLI interfaces to otherwise complex technologies including Kerberos, directory services, DNS, and certificate management, resulting in a unified identity and authentication provider under one umbrella, with common installer. In this talk, we will look at the approach we took with containerizing this complex application suite.