Enterprise Application Architecture with .NET Core

Containerization

Containers provide an isolated, resource-controlled, and portable operating environment within an existing running operating system and that hosting OS can itself be either running on a single physical machine or on a single virtual machine (VM).

A container is an isolated place created by forming a virtual boundary using the process and namespace isolation technology by the host operating system so that an application running inside the container can run without affecting the rest of the system and without the system affecting the application. An app inside a container would feel like it is running inside a freshly installed OS (and the required prerequisites) on a computer.

The idea of such a virtual environment was first ...