The new year is likely to see a rapid increase in the use of cloud computing. While cloud computing has been growing anyway, new technologies are making it possible to overcome some of the major objections to the cloud in the past. For example, one of the problems has been the interface between the resident operating system and the cloud, with the concomitant operability and security issues.
These challenges can be reduced or even eliminated through the use of container technologies, which are growing in usage. Containers package together sets of applications along with the related APIs and tools to make a self contained runtime environment. So containers tend to be platform independent, which is crucial. Also, they have can have built in accessibility to the cloud which is where they come in with regard to cloud computing. By far, the most popular container system is Docker, which is also useful for rapid development of cloud applications.
Cloud computing is not new. However, container cloud computing uses dedicated WAN accessibility rather than open internet access. Therefore the security issues become more contained, although there are pros and cons to this.
Overall, cloud computing using containers is the wave of the future. For more, check this article.
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