IT leaders have long struggled with building software faster and cheaper. The use of containers allows companies like Netflix, Goldman Sachs, Google, and Capital One to create apps that delight customers and disrupt competition. Containers provide application portability and the ability to "build once and run anywhere", allowing for increased server efficiency, scalability, and the minimization of vendor lock-in. However, containers also present security and networking challenges that companies must address for successful enterprise adoption.

2. IT leaders have long struggled with building software faster and
cheaper.
How do companies like Netflix, Goldman Sachs, Google, and
Capital One create apps that not only delight customers but also
disrupt competition?
The common ingredient for rapid release velocity across the four
companies is Containers.

3. Container frameworks like Docker, Rocket, and Vagrant have
made it easier to ship software faster.
In this presentation, learn why you need to adopt containers, use
cases, and pitfalls that you need to avoid.

5. “Containers are a solution to the problem of how to get software to
run reliably when moved from one computing environment to
another...By containerizing the application platform and its
dependencies, differences in OS distributions and underlying
infrastructure are abstracted away.”
Source: What Are Containers And Why Do You Need Them?

6. “We can build apps with the assurance that scalability will happen
outside of the container. Developers can focus on writing the app
without the need to deal directly with the efficient management of
resources.”
Source: Containers Plant A Flag In The Enterprise

7. “In fact, a survey of 745 IT professionals found that the top reason
IT organizations are adopting Docker containers is to build a hybrid
cloud. Application portability not only means less manual work for
developers and systems engineers, but it also can help IT leaders
minimize vendor lock-in and shorten cloud migration timetables.”
Source: Docker: Love It Or Leave It? 6 Things To Consider

8. “Enterprises needs to find ways to deliver more digital services to
market faster, which means not only becoming more adept at
developing, but also consuming new technology...Everything needs
to be constantly tested, and constantly refactored, with an eye to
disposability rather than reuse.”
Source: Rise of The Docker Pattern

9. “Docker and containers are serving as a standard way to package
and deploy applications and services in the face
of a lack of standards in leveraging cloud computing resources
alongside traditional VMs and datacenters.”
Source: Now Shipping: The Docker and Containers Ecosystem Rapidly Takes Shape

10. “Containers are an important component in broader efforts to
transform the way in which an enterprise builds, tests, deploys,
and scales its applications. Particularly, today, its customer-facing
systems of engagement.”
Source: Containers - There Really Is Substance Behind The Hype

11. “Container adoption is being driven by the promise that containers
deliver the ability to “build once and run anywhere", allowing
increased server efficiency and scalability for technology
managers.”
Source: 2016 – Hyperconverged Solutions With Containers To Become The “Norm”!

12. “Containers and the ecosystem around them should be considered
as a catalyst for change in the enterprise, to remove processes,
infrastructure complexity, cloud lock in and speed up innovation.”
Source: Time for the Enterprise Container Conversation

13. “A package that is created and tested on a developer’s laptop using
any language or framework can run unmodified on any public
cloud, any private cloud or a bare-metal server.”
Source: Why did Docker Catch On Quickly and Why Is It So Interesting?

14. “By improving collaboration between developers and system
administrators, container technology encourages a DevOps culture
of continuous deployment and hyperscale, which is essential to
meet current user demands for mobility, application availability, and
performance.”
Source: Docker And The Linux Container Ecosystem

16. “When development teams have to struggle to get test
environments provisioned and operational, they lose a lot of time,
and frustration mounts. Solving infrastructure availability
crunches in development and testing is often a good driver for
making the leap to containers. ”
Source: Adopting Containers In Enterprise

17. “A first project? Why not start by tackling one of the biggest IT
constraints enterprises face: developer wait cycles...Containers
are a great tool for overcoming these wasteful and maddening
bottlenecks. ”
Source: Why Enterprises Want Containers Now — And Why You Should Too

18. “Using containers allows organizations to package up all their
application dependencies so they can be easily deployed in a
uniform and consistent manner without significant operational
overhead.”
Source: The Docker Inflection Point? Goldman Sachs Adopt Containers Across The Board

19. “Production deployment is concerned with getting code with its
configuration and dependencies onto servers and running the apps
to a service-level agreement. So, the primary difference between
deploying apps in production and to development/test is dealing
with operations concerns such as availability, reliability, security
and performance.”
Source: Ok, We Get it, Docker’s Great. But What For?

20. “The premise of an application-centric infrastructure speaks to a
shift that is less about the machines and more about the
sophisticated software and services that make the world run...
It’s this sophisticated infrastructure that makes it possible for
startups to build services faster and cheaper.”
Source: The World Is Programmable With Containers

22. “Containers share CPU, memory, and disk in close proximity to
each other, and that sort of thing worries security pros. It's likely,
even though no one has done so on the record yet, that someone
will find a way for code in one container to snoop on or steal data
from another container. ”
Source: Containers Explained: 9 Essentials You Need To Know

23. “While extremely useful and powerful, container environments need
to be managed and this requires better integration to traditional
management tools or entirely new management tools.”
Source: Running Containers Doesn’t Have To Mean Running Blind

24. “Companies need to combine multiple containers, combine
containers with other applications, and enable communications
between containers and other resources. This requires that
containers be developed in an environment with a mix of different
technologies and computing platforms.”
Source: 5 Things Containers Need To Win The Enterprise

25. “In a development environment, such networking configurations
function without problems. However, the use of software containers
triggers many networking issues, particularly in large-scale
environments.”
Source: Software Containers Can Create Problems In The Network

26. “Yes, that's right, Docker, and many other container technologies,
need root access to do their magic. And, like any other program
that needs root access, with great power comes great opportunities
to wreak havoc.”
Source: For Containers, Security Is Problem #1

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