From the course: Cloud Foundations: Building a Stateless Application
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Containerized microservices applications
From the course: Cloud Foundations: Building a Stateless Application
Containerized microservices applications
- [Narrator] What comes next after we discuss microservices? Containers because microservices are deployed using containers. Containers make microservices easier to manage, develop, and deploy. Containers don't only house a microservice, they contain the code, dependencies, libraries, binaries, and everything it needs to run. Many tools out there have a framework to orchestrate all containers within an environment, especially this is an enterprise use case and orchestrated as best practice. Containers are commonly compared to virtual machines. One of the main differences is that containers share the OS or operating system kernel instead of requiring a full copy of it. Disclaimer, technically you don't have to use containers to deploy microservices, and vis-a-vis, you don't have to use microservices to use containers. They have a mutually beneficial relationship so they are usually couples but there are use cases…
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