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Pros and cons of containers in prod

Pros and cons of containers in prod

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Pros and cons of containers in prod

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- [Instructor] In this chapter, we're going to focus on using containers for a production website or service. Developer convenience is one of the main reasons to use containers in prod. They're already popular with developers because of their usefulness in development. Code can be packaged at the beginning of the release process and then tested in each environment as it moves to prod. The packaging aspect is more than a convenience, it can give an assurance that the same code that has been developed on a developer workstation has been tested in pre-production environments and that it is the same code that will be done deployed to the production infrastructure. Not just the code, but all the accompanying libraries and supporting packages. And if you follow the twelve-factor app philosophy, the configuration for the application will be stored in the environment, so literally the same artifact can be deployed to each…

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