#TheCloudShow – S2E7 – Cloud and Containers

At the moment, cloud containers are a hot topic in technology, and
security in particular. The world’s top technology companies,
including Microsoft, Google and Facebook, all use them. Although
it’s still early days, containers are seeing increasing use in
production environments. They promise a streamlined, easy-to-deploy
and secure method of implementing specific infrastructure
requirements, and they also offer an alternative to virtual
machines. The key differentiator with containers is the minimalist
nature of their deployment. Unlike virtual machines, they don’t
need a full OS to be installed within the container, and they don’t
need a virtual copy of the host server’s hardware. Containers are
able to operate with the minimum amount of resources to perform the
task they were designed for; this can mean just a few pieces of
software, libraries and the basics of an Operating System. With
guest Stephen Bourke, Public Cloud IaaS Specialist at Oracle.