From the course: DevOps Foundations: Containers
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Why use containers?
From the course: DevOps Foundations: Containers
Why use containers?
- [Instructor] To understand why to use containers, let's look at how they benefit a few different stakeholders. For developers, containers mean they can focus on the code and not be concerned about where it's deployed. You can get things working the way you want in your own development environment on your workstation, and when you're ready to ship, you package the entire thing up in a container and deploy that to your infrastructure. The primary benefit in that use case is really ease of use, but repeatability is another side benefit of being able to trust that your package will work the same in production as it did on a developer workstation. For an operations team, containers open up a more transformative role change. Containerization means that developers handle more of the details of the deployment environment, such as supporting packages and libraries required for their code. That transforms the operations team from…
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