Containers are a key component of modern application development. They are the standard for organizing compute resources, and managing the content of your application deployments.

Containers provide a discrete reproducible compute environment for building software to deploy in the cloud. They also simplify packaging and dependency management. You can use them for everything from orchestrating web applications or very large multi-cluster estates to testing your work and doing a proof of concept on your laptop.

Containers offer a number of advantages for packaging, deploying, and running applications:

Portability: Benefit from a consistent runtime environment that can run on any platform that supports the container runtime.

Scalability: Scale applications up or down, based on demand, with lightweight and easily replicated containers.

Consistency: Ensure that the application runs the same way in all environments with a consistent runtime environment.

Efficiency: Use fewer resources than traditional virtual machines with lightweight containers.

Isolation: Improve security and reliability with containers' process level isolation, with which applications running in separate containers cannot interfere with each other, improving security and reliability.

Agility: Reduce the time that it takes to bring new features or applications to market by quickly packaging and deploying applications.