Containerization is emerging as the way forward for the software industry as it brings forth a newer and richer way of building and bundling any kind of software, shipping and running them everywhere. That is the fast-evolving aspect of containerization promises and provides software portability, which has been a constant nuisance for IT developers and administrators for long decades now. The Docker idea is flourishing here because of a number of enabling factors and facets. This section is specially prepared for telling the key use cases of the Docker idea.
Workflows are a widely accepted and used abstraction for unambiguously representing the right details of any complicated and large-scale business and scientific applications and executing them on distributed compute systems such as clusters, clouds, and grids. However, workflow management systems have been largely evasive on conveying the relevant information of the underlying...