Comprehensive Analysis of Container Technology

Abstract

Containers is the new buzz word within the computer technology space. With the technology growing at an exponential pace and within a short span of time, the industry has evolved from native to virtualized, to cloud and now to container technology. This evolution is focused more on decoupling the software with the hardware and making software or applications more lean and agile. Containers has done a lot of good in achieving this objective and has also helped to cope up with the deficiencies faced in virtualized and cloud based environment. This paper tries to do a literature review of the evolution of containers and will also attempt to analyze container eco system. This article will also discuss the differences between the containers and virtual machines and will highlight the efficiencies that container technology brings over the virtualized environment.