article thumbnail

Docker image versus container: What are the differences?

CircleCI

Their first commercial version was ready for production in 2014. The containerization platform’s popularity has increased among developers and system administrators because it encompasses the application’s complete filesystem with all its dependencies. Solomon Hykes introduced Docker as an open-source project in 2013.

Linux 59
article thumbnail

The Good and the Bad of Kubernetes Container Orchestration

Altexsoft

Clearly, there must be a mechanism to coordinate the work of such complex distributed systems, and that’s exactly what Kubernetes was designed for by Google back in 2014. It aims at software developers, system administrators, and architects, who work with legacy systems and are new to cloud environments and container orchestration.

article thumbnail

Where Programming, Ops, AI, and the Cloud are Headed in 2021

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

This suggests that the real story is the integration of functional features into procedural and object-oriented languages. in 2008 and continuing with Java 8 in 2014, programming languages have added higher-order functions (lambdas) and other “functional” features. Starting with Python 3.0