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M. ZadkaDevOps in Pythonhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7996-0_12

12. Containers

Moshe Zadka1  
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Belmont, CA, USA
 

Many modern applications are deployed as containers. Containers are a way of running applications in isolation. This isolation allows for building self-contained images with all dependencies an application needs to run.

There are several ways to run containers. A popular one used by Kubernetes and Docker is containerd.

For a container runner to run an application as a container, the application needs to be inside of an Open Container Initiative (OCI) image.

There are several ways to build images. The most popular ways—buildctl, docker build

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