Summary
In this chapter, we learned the basics around containers and how they fit into modern microservices applications. The content presented in this chapter has helped you understand how to implement containers in distributed architectures, using already-present host operating system isolation features and container runtimes, which are the pieces of software required for building, sharing, and executing containers.
Software containers assist application development by providing resilience, high availability, scalability, and portability thanks to their very nature, and will help you create and manage the application life cycle.
In the next chapter, we will deep dive into the process of creating container images.
