Ep 25 : Containerisation for Industrial IoT - Neil Cresswell (CEO, Co-Founder - Portainer) )

Here's the thing. Containerisation is not only an IT technology, it is an advanced IT technology. And yet, it already looms on the horizon for Operations Technology.
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And, while the technology opens up massive opportunities for optimisation and efficiency in the OT network, it demands a fundamental rethink of industrial software distribution and management.
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To find out what this actually means for vendors, engineers, and system integrators in the industrial space, I invited Neil Cresswell for a conversation.
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Neil is the CEO and Co-Founder of a company called Portainer.io, the most popular Docker Container Management platform that abstracts the complexities of container management with a feature-rich and easy-to-use Graphical User Interface.
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Below is the outline of our conversation.
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✅ What are containers?
✅ Benefits of containerisation at the Industrial Edge
✅ Challenges of adopting containers for Industrial Edge Compute
✅ Key differences between containerisation at the edge and in the cloud
✅ Containerization Approaches and Microservices for IIoT
✅ What is Portainer and How it Works
✅ Use Cases in Industrial IoT
✅ Portainer Products
✅ Reference Architectures for Managing software in OT
✅ Best Practices Containerisation at the Industrial Edge
✅ How a Containerised PLC functions
✅ Impact of Containerisation on Industrial System Integration
✅ The Future of Industrial Software Distribution