Get To Know Containers

This thing called Docker you keep hearing about -- it's for real.

At Cloud Platform Live, Google made abundantly clear it believes Linux containers, a technology Google has used internally for more than a decade, represent the future of the cloud and will become the preferred environment for hosting the next generation of cloud-native applications.

Brian Stevens, Google's VP of cloud platforms, said Docker quickly "became the de facto industry standard" for representing these containers. Google has been the primary force behind Kubernetes, an open-source project for supporting large Docker container deployments.

By mastering containers, solution providers can offer clients rapidly provisioned, self-contained application environments that yield quick development cycles and ease the pain of administration.