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Container technology has emerged as the preferred deployment platform due to its characteristics. Read through to learn the importance of containers, their benefits, and their role in microservice deployments.
As computing evolved to deployments in native-cloud and serverless architecture, there was a need for lighter software applications that could be:
These requirements led to the concept of microservices, also known as the microservice architecture. This is an architectural style that structures an application as a collection of services that are fine-grained and the protocols are lightweight. Microservices enabled legacy technology solution stacks to be broken into smaller logical units/parts that can run independently on cloud environments, allowing these complex applications to be quickly tested and reliably deployed.
Microservices, being loosely coupled and independently deployable as smaller services, needed a platform that supported lightweight deployable capabilities.
Container technology emerged as the preferred deployment platform for microservices due to characteristics, like being light, modular, and portable:
Container and microservices adoption have been led by organizations that have transitioned to modern development and application patterns like DevOps and CI/CD as the way to build, release, and run software.
As the concept of microservices emerged, enabling legacy technology solution stacks to be broken into smaller logical units/parts that ran independently on cloud environments; these loosely coupled and independently deployable smaller services, needed a platform that supported lightweight deployable capabilities. Container technology emerged as the preferred deployment platform for microservices due to characteristics like being – light, modular, portable.
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