Developers are faced with ever-increasing pressure to build, modify, test, and deploy highly distributed applications in a high cadence. Operations engineers are looking for a uniform deployment strategy that encompasses most or all of their ever-growing portfolio of applications, and stakeholders want to keep their total cost of ownership low. Docker containers combined with a container orchestrator such as Kubernetes help them all to achieve these goals.
Docker containers accelerate and simplify the building, shipping, and running of highly distributed applications. Containers turbo-charge CI/CD pipelines, and containerized applications allow a company to standardize on one common deployment platform, such as Kubernetes. Containerized applications are more secure and can be run on any platform that's able to run containers, on premises or in the cloud.