Running Microsoft Workloads on AWS: Active Directory, Databases, Development, and More

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7. Containers

Ryan Pothecary¹  

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Tonyrefail, UK

 

Docker emerged in 2013 with their Container technology, although the term Containers can be traced back as far as 2006 with Google’s Process Containers or 2008 with LXC (Linux Containers). In reality, the idea of abstracting and isolating processes and user environments from each other can go back to the mainframe days of yore.

So, why Containers (Figure 7-1)?

Figure 7-1

Containers vs. virtualization

Let’s go back to our application developer who works inside a large distributed development team ...