Containerisering
Containerisering, or containerization, is a method of packaging software into lightweight, portable execution environments called containers. A container bundles an application with its dependencies, libraries and configuration, sharing the host operating system kernel but running in isolated processes. This provides consistency across development, testing and production, and enables rapid deployment, scaling and resource efficiency.
Containers rely on operating system level virtualization rather than full virtual machines. They use features such
Historically, containerization grew from early ideas like chroot and LXC, gaining popularity with Docker in the
Benefits of containerisering include reproducible environments, efficient use of system resources, faster startup times, and easier
Challenges involve security and governance, such as securing the container supply chain and preventing privilege escalations.
Containerisering is widely used in microservices architectures, testing pipelines, edge computing and data science workloads, where