What are containers?
Containers are lightweight, standalone, and executable packages containing everything needed to run a piece of software, including the code, runtime, system tools, libraries, and settings. They are designed to provide consistency across different computing environments, from development and testing to deployment in production, by encapsulating the application and its dependencies in a containerized environment.
Some critical advantages of containerized deployments include the following:
- Isolation: Containers use operating system-level virtualization to create isolated environments. Each container shares the same OS kernel as the host but runs independently, ensuring separation from other containers on the same system.
- Portability: Containers are highly portable, allowing you to run the same application consistently across various platforms, such as Linux distributions or cloud providers. Containerization technologies such as Docker and container...
