Author: Sahil Suri

Introduction In our previous article, we shared an introduction to containers and orchestration to familiarize you with the terms and talked briefly about the advantages of containers. In this post, we will explain some of the important use cases of containers in greater detail.   Implementing microservices Microservices are a type of application architecture that involves splitting the application into a series of small, independent services. Microservices can be built, modified, and scaled separately, with relatively little impact on one another. Containers excel when it comes to managing a large number of small, independent workloads. Containers and orchestration make it easier to manage and automate the process of deploying, scaling, and connecting lots of microservice instances. For example, I may have one microservice that needs additional resources. With containers, all I need to do is create more containers for that service to handle the load. With orchestration, that can even be done automatically and in real-time.   Cloud Transformation Cloud transformation is the process of migrating your existing IT infrastructure to the cloud. Many companies today are making the transition away from locally-hosted services and toward services hosted in the cloud. However, moving your infrastructure into the cloud can come with challenges. Containers can help you move into the cloud. It is relatively easy to wrap existing software in containers. While containers may not be the answer for every...

Introduction Containerization and orchestration technologies have immensely contributed to the revolution of mainstream IT and continue to play a pivotal role in the rise of DevOps culture across organizations. Before we started working with containers it’s important to understand what they are and how they work before diving deep into the implementation part of the technology. In this post, we will explain what are containers and orchestration tools/technologies and why you should consider using them.   Why use containers? Containers are an extremely powerful tool and have had a tremendous impact on how the industry does IT and with good reason. Containers help us to: 1) Move faster and adapt more quickly to a changing environment. 2) Containers allow a greater degree of automation in managing, maintaining and updating software. 3) Help increase reliability as they are easy to create, destroy and replicate and thus help in reducing downtime. 4) They help reduce cost since they are extremely lightweight and do not require a large number of resources to function.   What are the containers? Simply put containers are all about portable software. Containers are a technology that allows you to deploy software on a variety of systems ranging from a developer’s laptop all the way to a production system. When we are able to run our software in a portable fashion on multiple different systems, it speeds up...