There has been a lot of hype about containers in the IT industry of late; you could be forgiven for thinking that containers alone will solve every application deployment problem possible. There have been a lot of marketing campaigns from vendors stating that implementing containers will make a business more agile or that they mean a business is implementing DevOps simply by deploying their applications in containers. This is undoubtedly the case if you listen to software vendors promoting their container technology or container orchestration software.
Containers are not a new concept, though. Far from it: Solaris 10 introduced the concept of Solaris Zones as far back as 2005, which allowed users to segregate the operating system into different components and run isolated processes. Modern technologies such as Docker or Rocket provide a container workflow that allows users to package and deploy containers.
However, like all infrastructure concepts, containers are simply...