“Containerization packages applications with their dependencies into lightweight, portable containers, enabling consistent performance across environments and efficient resource utilization.”
Containerization is a software deployment method that packages an application’s code along with all its dependencies, libraries, and configuration files into a single, lightweight unit called a container. These containers are portable and can run consistently across different environments, whether on physical servers, virtual machines, or cloud platforms, eliminating compatibility issues between development and production systems.
The architecture typically consists of multiple layers: the infrastructure (hardware or virtualized environment), the operating system (often Linux), the container engine (like Docker or Kubernetes), and the application with its dependencies. Containers share the host OS kernel, making them more resource-efficient and faster to start than virtual machines while maintaining isolation for security and reliability. This approach is widely used for modern cloud-native applications and microservices due to its scalability, portability, and efficiencies.
