Ben is the founder of Ocelot Uproar and the creator behind Katacoda (Katacoda.com), an interactive learning platform for software engineers. Katacoda specialises in enabling developers to understand Cloud-Native technologies including Docker, Kubernetes and OpenShift.
Ben has been working with these technologies, helping both train teams and delivering projects. Ben tweets at @Ben_Hall while blogging at blog.benhall.me.uk
Talks I've Given
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Three Years of Lessons from Running Potentially Malicious Code Inside Container
Featuring Ben Hall
In this talk, Ben will share the lessons learned of building Katacoda and some of the interesting stories and security attempts from the past three years.
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Lightning Talk: Real-World Container Hacking Attempts
Featuring Ben Hall
For the past three years, Katacoda has been providing an online learning and training environment for cloud-native technologies. The live environments for Docker, Kubernetes and other Cloud-Native technologies are accessible via the browser without any downloads or configuration. A side effect is...
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Tutorial: Using Istio Service Mesh and Kubernetes to Solve Service-to-Service Communications, Scaling and Security
Featuring Ben Hall
As the number of services scale in architecture, the complexity and management increases. To manage services in production, the concept of Service Mesh has been introduced.
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Running Kubernetes without Docker using CRI
Featuring Ben Hall
The Kubernetes eco-system is evolving with new projects designed directly around Kubernetes. In this talk, Ben will introduce how to run Kubernetes with CRI (Container Runtime Interface) allowing you to use ContainerD, CRI-O and other container runtimes.
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Tutorial: Scaling Docker Containers using Kubernetes and Azure Container Service
Featuring Ben Hall
The Azure Container Service offers simple deployments of Kubernetes, an open source container orchestration solution, designed to help manage running containers at scale. In this session, Ben will explore the benefits of deploying Containers to Kubernetes and how to ensure your system remains...
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Tips on solving E_TOO_MANY_THINGS_TO_LEARN
Featuring Ben Hall
Kubernetes is moving at a fantastic pace with innovations constantly happening within the community. But this leads to a problem, how is it possible to keep track of what's happening?
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Running .NET with Docker
Featuring Ben Hall
Containers are changing the way we design and develop systems. In this workshop, Ben will explore how to combine .NET applications and Docker to improve your infrastructure. The workshop will explore how they work in production and the real world.
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