Evolving Systems Explain What is containerization and why does it matter?
One of the software trends that’s emerged over the past couple of years, Containerization, has quickly picked up pace, building on the momentum of another trend, virtualization, which it can either replace of complement. Containerization is the ring-fencing and packaging of an application so that can run across any infrastructure. This affords benefits to developers, ops teams, and overall infrastructure alike. For developers, Containerization enables applications to be deployed quickly and securely. An alternative to traditional practices in which code is built in a specific environment and then transferred to a new location, often resulting in bugs and errors, Containerization bundles application code with its related configuration files, libraries, and dependencies. The resulting package or “container” is free standing and portable - able to run across any platform or cloud. What we’re really talking about here is process isol...