Birth Of Containerization ( For Software Industory )
The Word Container itself not new when shipping industory is booming its the idea of “ Malcom McLean “ I will Say He is “Father of Containerisation “ and many company starting Shipping The Goods . Check this Video
Imagine that you have a company in Europe and you want to transport your products to China by sea. So, you can find a ship with the adequate size and load the Ship with your cargo.
How its Similiar To Software Industory ?
Metaphor: In the software world, the ship is your Server.
Containers have been around for a very long time ? Did You Know That
First experimentations
- IBM VM/370 (1972)
- FreeBSD jails (1999-2000)
- Linux VServers (2001)
- Solaris Containers (2004)
- Open VZ (Open Virtuzzo)(2005)
- Process Containers (2006)
Stable experimentations after CGroups and NameSapces features
- LXC (2008) - First Linux container manager
- Warden (2011)/ CloudFoundry
- LMCTFY (2013)/ Currently Part Of Open Container Foundation
- Docker(2013) - Currently Docker is the #1 most wanted platform
- The Importance of Container Security Is Revealed 2016
- Container Tools Become Mature (2017)
- Adoption of rkt and Containerd by CNCF
- Kubernetes Grows Up (2017)
- The Gold Standard (2018)
- A Shifting Landscape(2019)
- Container Predictions(2020)