With the surging popularity of the open source Docker containerization platform, the domain of containerization has accelerated in an unprecedented manner. Today, use of containerization has become widespread among IT professionals. Any kind of software can be easily containerized through automated tools. Thus, there are container-ready images in standardized format made available in public and private repositories. To modernize legacy applications, the use of containers as the most efficient wrapping mechanism is emerging and evolving.
The use of containers to modernize legacy applications brings forth a few advantages. The main point of containerization is to remove the infrastructure dependency from legacy applications. That is, containerized applications can run on any platform and infrastructure without any tweaking. Any of the infrastructure...