March 2018
Intermediate to advanced
380 pages
9h 23m
English
Shipping code to the server is always difficult, especially when you want to scale it. This is mainly because we have to manually create the same environment and make sure the application has all the necessary connectivity (to other services) that is needed. This was a major pain point for teams when shipping and scaling their code.
Containers were the game-changer in this field. They helped to bundle the entire application along with dependencies in a shippable container, and all we need is to provide an environment in which these containers can run. This simplified the process of shipping code to the server and also among the development teams. This also reduced ...