As with any development process, there are more details that you need to
understand to master building and running Docker images and containers. In
many respects, the success of containers and Docker has been around the ease
of development. As the standard and product progresses, things will likely get
even easier
A Container In Every Shop
The tendency is to think that new ways of building systems will be the way that
we build systems for years to come. While that hasn’t been the case in the past,
it could be the case with containers.
Containers deliver a standard, useful enabling technology and provide a path
to application architecture that offers both managed distribution and service
orientation. We’ve been trying to reach this state for years but have yet to
succeed.
Perhaps what’s most compelling is the portability advantage of containers, and
that remains the battle cry of container technology providers these days.
I suspect that if this momentum continues, containers will be a part of most IT
shops in the future—whether they’re moving to the cloud or not. The viability
and versatility of this technology will be something that we continue to explore
and exploit over the next several years. Count on the fact that a few mistakes
will be made, but the overall impact of containers is a foregone conclusion.
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