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S. ScottOracle on Dockerhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9033-0_1

1. Introducing Docker and Oracle

Sean Scott1  
(1)
Boise, ID, USA
 

Over the past decade, we’ve witnessed a fundamental shift in how infrastructure is built, deployed, and run. The rise of reliability engineering is a response to systems’ increasing complexity and scale. Without its tools and methods, managing and monitoring the environments of hundreds or thousands of hosts and services is an unimaginable, impossible task.

In traditional organizations, deploying infrastructure is a slow, manual process that relies on operations teams and their specialized skills. When consumers, like development ...

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