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Containers: A Non-Technical Explanation
Are containers all the rage around your company’s tech department? Here’s an explanation of the hype for the rest of us.
So, you work at a software company and your tech department refers to or is implementing something called containers. They say it revolutionizes the way developers deploy their product to the customers. Awesome! But what the heck is it?
I admit, I work in my company’s tech department and I wasn’t even sure what is. But then again, I’m an analyst, not an engineer or developer, so my tech knowledge is more high-level and conceptual. Nevertheless, my boss told me I should learn so I can have a better understanding of our development infrastructure. But where do you even begin?
Servers, Virtualization, Scalability, and Containers, Oh My!
To even begin to understand containers, we need to understand servers, virtualization and scalability.
Let’s start with the servers
The servers are basically large, powerful computers, with a lot of storage space, memory and processing power. They’re (hopefully) located in a secure data center, either owned by our company (on premises), in a data center owned by…
