Container Technologies for Startups

We’ve seen single container deployments and multiple container deployments, and now it’s time to bring containers to the real world. You’re a start-up, starting from scratch, and you are building a solution on container technology. What should you do?

In the previous chapters, we have gone through the technical side of decision-making. Whether you are coming from a greenfield scenario or a scenario where you have to migrate and refactor existing code, there is always a scenario for you.

But now you’re a start-up. You have some plans (usually including a business plan) and somewhat of a technical direction that you want to move in. So let’s say that the technical direction is containers. In such a case, it’s time to take a look at real-world implementations.

You could argue “Does it matter if I’m a start-up or a medium to small business?” Yes, it does matter. There are considerable...