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India’s developer ecosystem is one of the youngest and fastest-growing in the world, yet there’s still a gap between brilliant blue-sky ideas and truly enterprise-grade, sustainable solutions. At the same time, vendor lock-in, rising cloud costs, and security concerns make it critical for India to take ownership of its digital future.
Most young developers here already work with Ubuntu, making it one of the most popular Linux base images for containers. But what if there was a better way to go beyond just building apps, towards building secure, scalable solutions that stand the test of time?
This talk introduces Rocks—Ubuntu’s next-gen container images—and shows why they matter for India. We’ll explore:
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How Rocks differ from familiar Docker images.
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How Chisel tooling reduces attack surfaces without compromising developer experience.
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How Rocks tie into the broader Ubuntu ecosystem (Juju, charms, orchestration) to unlock scalable, multi-cloud, vendor-neutral deployments—the very model already powering national projects like UIDAI’s microservices platform for Aadhar.
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A demo of an India-relevant use case involving DPGs (Digital Public Goods), showing how simple it is to start “rocking” your containerized apps, and what implications this has on security, stability and lifecycle-management in the long run.
By the end, you’ll see how Rocks can be the foundation for India’s young innovators to build open source that’s not only developer-friendly, but also secure, sovereign, and enterprise-grade.