Containers have quickly become a fundamental part of DevOps. Their lightweight and portable nature makes them attractive to all sizes of organisation, from small startups trying to reduce costs to large multibillion-pound companies wanting to ensure service availability.
Compared with traditional hypervisor-based virtualisation, containers are not weighed down by emulated hardware, or the bloat that comes from replicating an entire operating system. This makes containers faster to spin up, easier to transport and considerably more scalable.
