The key drivers for Dockerization

The first and foremost driver for Docker-enabled containerization is to competently and completely overcome the widely expressed limitations of the virtualization paradigm. Actually, we have been working on proven virtualization techniques and tools for quite a long time now in order to realize the much-demanded software portability. That is, with the goal of eliminating the inhibiting dependency between software and hardware there have been several right initiatives that include the matured and stabilized virtualization paradigm. Virtualization is a kind of beneficial abstraction, accomplished through the incorporation of an additional layer of indirection between hardware resources and software components. ...

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