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The Missing Introduction To Containerization

During the last four years from 2015 to 2019, cloud and distributed computing were one of the most in-demand skills. They graduated from a niche skillset to a more prominent skillset in the global workforce. Containerization technologies are one of the trendiest topics in the cloud economy and the IT ecosystem. The container ecosystem can be confusing at times, this post may help you understand some confusing concepts about Docker and containers. We are also going to see how the containerization ecosystem evolved and the state of containerization in 2019.

Disclaimer: This content is part of / inspired by my course Painless Docker.

“We are not makers of history. We are made by history.” Martin Luther King

Docker is one of the most known container platforms nowadays and it was released in 2013. However, the use of isolation and containerization started before this date. Let’s go back to the year 1979…