What are containers?

Containers are a form of operating system virtualization. A single container might be used to run anything from a small microservice or software process to a larger application. Inside a container are all the necessary executables, binary code, libraries, and configuration files.

Benefits of containers

• Containers virtualize the operating system.
• It is abstraction of the operating system level.
• Multiple containers can run on the same machine.
• It can share the host operating system kernel means the amount of disk space, RAM, processor time and other server resources that are saved.
• Containers, packages your application code and it’s dependencies together.