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)