December 2022
Intermediate to advanced
366 pages
8h 30m
English
In this chapter, I will cover what containers are and how to overcome some of the challenges they bring and Google’s answer to on-prem and multicloud container management.
What are containers?
Containers are essentially packages of software. They contain the application code, configuration files, binaries, and libraries required to run in a self-contained state. Containers don’t contain an operating system. Instead, they share the OS kernel and associated resources such as CPU and memory.