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Jonathan Baier
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Jonathan Baier

Jonathan Baier is an emerging technology leader living in Brooklyn, New York. He has had a passion for technology since an early age. When he was 14 years old, he was so interested in the family computer (an IBM PCjr) that he pored over the several hundred pages of BASIC and DOS manuals. Then, he taught himself to code a very poorly-written version of Tic-Tac-Toe. During his teenage years, he started a computer support business. Throughout his life, he has dabbled in entrepreneurship. He currently works as Senior Vice President of Cloud Engineering and Operations for Moody's corporation in New York.
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Standard container specification


A core result of the OCI effort is the creation and development of the overarching container specification. The specification has five core principles for all containers to follow, which I will briefly paraphrase (you can refer to more details about this in point 2 in the References section at the end of the chapter):

  • The container must have standard operations to create, start, and stop containers across all implementations.
  • The container must be content-agnostic, which means that type of application inside the container does not alter the standard operations or publishing of the container itself.
  • The container must be infrastructure-agnostic as well. Portability is paramount; therefore, the containers must be able to operate just as easily in GCE as in your company's datacenter or on a developer's laptop.
  • A container must also be designed for automation, which allows us to automate across the build, updating, and deployment pipelines. While this rule is a bit...
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Jonathan Baier

Jonathan Baier is an emerging technology leader living in Brooklyn, New York. He has had a passion for technology since an early age. When he was 14 years old, he was so interested in the family computer (an IBM PCjr) that he pored over the several hundred pages of BASIC and DOS manuals. Then, he taught himself to code a very poorly-written version of Tic-Tac-Toe. During his teenage years, he started a computer support business. Throughout his life, he has dabbled in entrepreneurship. He currently works as Senior Vice President of Cloud Engineering and Operations for Moody's corporation in New York.
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