The container technology adoption and a set of critical common questions related.

Stakes are strongly high when it comes to container software and technologies. One can therefore inter alia: appreciate the work on cGroups, the enabling technology for containers in the Linux Kernel; Kubernetes, the open source container orchestration engine.

Recall that, everything at Google, from Gmail to Maps to YouTube, runs in a container. Each week more than 3 billion containers are launched.

In fact, containers have been in production for years at web-scale companies like Google.

At Connectikpeople.co we are proud to observe that, the concept is more and more popularized notably on Connectikpeople.co and made accessible to all developers.

The early days of container adoption, also means: critical common questions including: why do containers matter, how safe are they and how should you use them?

Cornelius Willis, Global Lead, Product Marketing  at Cloud Platform sat down to discuss these issues with some leaders from the container software industry: Alex Polvi, CEO of CoreOS, Kit Colbert, VP & CTO, Cloud-Native Apps at VMware and Craig McLuckie, Product Manager with Google Cloud Platform.


You can take a look at a few highlights from their talk below.

Why does anyone care about container technology?

Craig McLuckie: Container technologies have solved a really hard problem around the hermetic sealing and deployment of an application. As we look to the future, every enterprise...needs access to the capabilities that have previously been the provenance of internet giants alone.

What are some myths that we need to bust about containers?

Alex Polvi: [That they are inherently less secure]. What you were doing before containers...was just running a bunch of different applications on one machine. ...If any of those got compromised in any way, the attacker could go get the rest of the server. ...At least with containers you’re putting up some boundaries and walls between every single application.

What needs to happen in the industry that isn’t happening now for containers to take hold?

Kit Colbert: Most of the customers we talk to... [today] are the cutting edge ones...and what you’ll see happening over time is more out-of-the-box solutions. ...Things that just work and are able to let IT teams take it and run.