The following are a few benefits of containerization:
- Monolithic apps to microservices: Microservices is an architecture pattern in which a single monolithic application is split into thin manageable components. This promotes having focused development teams, smoother operations, and instant scalability at each module. Containers are ideal deployment targets for microservices. For example, you can have a frontend web app run in an individual container and other background services such as e-mail sending process, thumbnail generator, and so on, run in separate containers. This makes them update individually, scale as per load, and better resource management.
- Configuration as code: Containers allow you to create, start, ...