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V. Ramos ApolinarioWindows Containers for IT Proshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6686-1_1

1. Introduction to containers

Vinicius Ramos Apolinario1  
(1)
Newcastle, WA, USA
 

Let me tell you a story:

John is an IT admin currently working for a medium company. He has been managing physical hosts and virtual machines (VMs) for a long time – even before joining this company. John has worked with Active Directory, mail servers such as Microsoft Exchange, file servers, and many other infrastructure and networking components. One thing he learned over the years is the importance of keeping servers with the right configuration and only approved software installed. This has saved him in the past in audits and performance measurements, ...

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