We’ll start with an overview of what application containers are and how they are used in enterprises to help improve deployment time, consistency, and the efficiency and availability of applications. Along the way, we will cover key characteristics of what containers can and cannot do, and how they compare to virtual machines. In future related posts, we will cover how Kubernetes is used to orchestrate containers and associated resources. We’ll discuss how Kubernetes schedules the deployment of containers, scales container resources, manages communication between applications in containers, and is used to monitor the health and availability of containers. What’s an […]