Use cases of containers
There are many use cases of containers. And honestly it depends on the developers how they want to use containers for creating and deploying their application. We already have discussed the benefits of containers, so other then that following are the most important use cases of containers:
- Creating lightweight stateless applications.
- Using containers for continuous integrations.
- Using containers for Internet of things (IoT).
- Using containers for Big data.
- Building cloud native applications.
- Developer Productivity and Early Application Development.
- Using containers for faster application startup.
- Using containers for Faster deployment.
Why do we need containers ? Need of containerization and the OCI.
Docker and containerization have been the base for modern-day applications and DevOps. But do you also wonder why containers exist? and why a product like Docker has been so successful. In this article, we are going to discuss the motivation behind a tool like Docker why the developers felt the need for containers, and the industry-accepted specifications of those containers. We try to understand why containers have become the dominant kind of development and deployment mechanism for software applications today.