Containers are a powerful enabling technology for cloud adoption. But they can be difficult to understand if you’ve not worked with them before. This post offers a top-line overview of what they are and what they do.
The role of container technology
Largescale cloud migration often needs to walk a fine line between ambition and pragmatism. It usually needs to be completed by a specific deadline, but modernising workloads to take advantage of cloud capabilities takes time. This is where container technology steps in. It offers a relatively quick and easy way to partially modernise applications, so they perform well in the new environment.
What is a container?
Container technology ‘contains’ IT applications and all the elements needed to run them in a single place. This means an application will run in the same way no matter where it’s hosted. Just like physical shipping containers, these virtual containers are easily moved from place to place,…