2 years ago

Category: Business, Security, Kubernetes, Ubuntu, Docker, Infrastructure, containerization, automation, shell

Containers have taken their place as one of the most powerful paradigms for application development in use today, and, accordingly, the adoption of containers is on the rise. But now that the container market is maturing (Docker and Kubernetes are 8 and 7 years old, respectively), the organizational focus is beginning to “shift left” to what developers can do in the design phase to make containers more efficient, resilient and secure. When containers break, it tends to be in production, and a lot of those issues could be addressed in the design phase through container best practices. Container best practices” is a concept that empowers developers — not just DevOps — to work with containers in a safe, easy and ideally automated way.

One of the common pitfalls organizations make is to succumb in practice to the misperception that minification of containers IS container best practices.