Its like a magicians hat for tech, containers! It has turned the IT world up side down, in a good way. From little tiny illustrations, a container might come off like a buzz word. But take a second glance and see they are changing the way our software we development and application of software. Think of them as magic boxes that contain everything needed for an application to run. Your software will always run when all of an applications piece are compressed in to a container. For the first time ever there is no more with “It plays perfect on my machine”.
Get down on their level. Containers are the little residential houses in a sea of terms in this virtual landscape teeming with a declare or reveal (something); To unpack used so software can be rapidly setup anywhere. That was like when the de-regulating of.
Not far from now, my buddy Jim who is a coder and the type that is messy too got his code running perfectly on his big desktop but then moved to production servers only to be faced with a waking nightmare. Containers came in with the effortlessness of a super hero to standardize the environment. Jim was over the moon. Literally. When his code made it through production unharmed.
Now lets sit back and think about how containers have made things fair between all different sizes of companies. It cuts operational friction out like a knife through butter. The days when we had big, lumbering virtual machines that gobble up resources like a Hummer are over. With containers, you get all efficiency of a plug-in hybrid car without succumbing to two hundred miles between charges.
Here is one for you: Developers sometimes joke that moving to containers is like moving houses and discovering that everything is in its right place at the new location. They are clean and efficient; DevOps teams can now spin up or down applications quickly and with an elegance that adjusts to the ever changing needs of the digital landscape similar to a ballerina pirouetting seamlessly.
Also, never underestimate the security they provide. Just like an onion and all it’s glorious layers it keeps applications separated for a peace of mind. This makes it so that one bad egg can’t take out the entire carton.
