Containerization is a virtualization method offering several benefits over bare metal and virtual machines. As environments are “contained,” each can have specific libraries — or different versions of the same library — that are unique to each application, without conflicting with other apps on the same host. This reduces deployment-stage errors, increases the portability of applications from on-premise to the cloud, between cloud vendors, and more.
Many university groups are using containers for production applications. Who are they and what are some of the use cases they are meeting? This session will be a discussion panel of some of those using containers in production
