Introduction to containers

Businesses are constantly looking for newer and quicker ways to deploy applications and keep businesses running. These requirements lead to software development and support teams to find solutions for saving money and time. Adopting an approach of using containers for rapid deployments leaves more time for software deployment and reduces time spent on creating and configuring environments.

Containers are specialized packages of software that bundle application software with associated configuration files, libraries, and dependencies that are required to enable an application to run. Containers also contain the kernel for an operating system (OS) and don't require the whole OS in itself, which allows for larger-scale deployments than what VMs could achieve using the same resources. The reason for this is that the OS consumes resources, such as storage, memory, and processing power. In the previous chapter, you learned about VMs and how they work by...