Containers

Containers are a way of packaging applications with their dependencies and configuration in a single, runnable package. Containers are similar to virtual machines in that they isolate applications from each other on a shared operating system but different in that containers do not provide hardware-level virtualization as virtual machines do.

Deeper Knowledge on Containers

Kubernetes (k8s)

A system to conduct an orchestra of containers

Docker

A set of tools to build and run containers

Broader Topics Related to Containers

Software Engineering

Engineering approaches to software development