09. Why do we need containers?

CloudEng Course1 Lesson6 WhyWeNeedContainers V1

Containers in the Cloud

Enterprises are adopting container technology at an explosive rate. A container consists of everything an application needs to run: the application itself and its dependencies (e.g. libraries, utilities, configuration files), all bundled into one package.

Each container is an independent component that can run on its own and be moved from environment to environment.

** We will be going more in-depth on the topic of Microservices in Course 4: Microservices at Scale using AWS & Kubernetes**

Identify components contained in a container. Pick two.
SOLUTION:
  • Application
  • Runtime libraries

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