Containers – a new trend
Containers offer a parallel or alternate packaging; rather than including the entire operating system and emulated hardware common in virtual machines, containers only bring their unique attributes and share these common ancillaries and functions, making them smaller and more agile. These traits have allowed large companies such as Google and Facebook to scale in real time to surge needs of their users with microsecond response times and complete the automation of both the spawning and the destruction of container workloads.
So, what does all of this mean to us? The location and packaging of a web application impacts its security posture. Both private and public cloud-hosted applications will normally integrate with ...
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