Traditionally in order to deploy applications/software operations, teams used to procure hardware such as physical servers, networking components, storage drives and then set it up in the on-prem data centers. With the advent of the Cloud, the hurdle of procuring, setting up, and managing physical hardware for creating servers was gone as it enabled us to set up on-demand Infrastructure in the cloud as and when required.
The Existing Problems in Production Environment
Cloud Computing resulted in a paradigm shift in the Software industry and changed the way people build software. It enabled us to craft solutions and provided us with Enterprise-Grade, scalability, and reliability. However, there was one small problem that was in existence for a very long time, and it resulted in bottlenecks while performing deployments in production environments.
It was the dependency of any software on its physical environment. Many times we have observed that a piece of software works fine in a developer’s local environment but does not work or breaks in production environments. Thus dependency of software on the environments used to result in bottlenecks as it resulted in unstable builds in production environments.
How does Docker solve this problem?
Docker provides a runtime environment for deploying our applications in the form of containers. Basically, it is a pre-packaged lightweight virtualized environment, which comprises of only the bare minimum required components that are needed to make sure that the software can function properly. Since it only contains the required libraries it is very lightweight and thus it becomes easy to build, distribute and ship our application in the form of such containers.
Docker helps us by providing a runtime environment for the orchestration and management of these containers. With Docker, we can Build, Distribute and Ship our software in an easy and efficient manner. It also helps us in automating the build and deployment process by offering out of the box integration with various CI/CD tools, secure ways of distributing builds in form of docker images, and also offers enterprise-grade scalability which makes it easy for us to handle a huge amount of traffic into our environment.
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