Container technology provides a great way to create, manage and run applications with a high degree of efficiency. A physical host running Docker, for example, can manage hundreds of containers at the ...

Docker containers are meant to be immutable, meaning the code and data they hold never change. Immutability is useful when you want to be sure the code running in production is the same as the code ...

The idea of running applications within containers – also known as operating system (OS) level virtualisation – is not . The origins of the technology can be traced back to the days of the mainframe.