Understanding Linux Containers Before Changing the World
Driven by an array of factors—productivity, automation, and cost-effective deployments—organizations have grown to love container technology, especially as they make it possible to run infrastructure more efficiently. Container technology introduces something we call containers. Containers are application sandboxes.
Containers provide a way to run your application by packaging it with the runtime, operating system, libraries, and every dependency it needs. This brings simplicity, speed, and flexibility to application development and deployment, with a more efficient way to utilize system resources. A major step up from virtual machines, I must say. Various container technologies are available, like Docker containers, Kubernetes containers, and Linux containers (LXC).
This article will look at Linux containers and their uses.