During the past decade, containers have revolutionized
software development by introducing higher levels of
consistency and scalability.Now, developers can work without the
challenges of dependency management, environment consistency, and
collaborative workflows. When developers explore containerization,
they might learn about container internals, architecture, and how
everything fits together.And, eventually, they may find themselves
wondering about the differences between containerd and Docker and
how they relate to one another. In this blog post, we’ll explain
what containerd is, how Docker and containerd work together,
Containerization helped drastically improve the security of
applications by providing engineers with greater control over the
runtime environment of their applications.However, a significant
time investment is required to maintain the security posture of
those applications, given the daily discovery of new
vulnerabilities as well as regular releases of languages and
frameworks. The concept of “distroless” images offers the
promise of greatly reducing the time needed to keep applications
secure by eliminating most of the software contained in typical
container images.This approach also reduces the amount of
Eleven years ago, Solomon Hykes walked onto the stage at PyCon 2013
and revealed Docker to the world for the first time.The problem
Docker was looking to solve?“Shipping code to the server is hard.”
And the world of application software development changed forever.
Docker was built on the shoulders of giants of the Linux kernel,
copy-on-write file systems, and developer-friendly git
semantics.The result?Docker has fundamentally transformed how
developers build, share, and run applications.By “dockerizing” an
app and its dependencies
The domain of GenAI and LLMs has been democratized and tasks that
were once purely in the domain of AI/ML developers must now be
reasoned with by regular application developers into everyday
products and business logic.This is leading to new products and
services across banking, security, healthcare, and more with
generative text, images, and videos.Moreover, GenAI’s potential
economic impact is substantial, with estimates it could add
trillions of dollars annually to the global economy. Docker
offers an ideal way for developers to build, test, run, and
We are racing toward the finish line at KubeCon
+ CloudNativeCon Europe, March 19 – 22, 2024 in Paris,
France.Join the Docker “pit crew” at Booth #J3 for an incredible
racing experience, new product demos, and limited-edition
SWAG. Meet us at our KubeCon booth, sessions, and events to
learn about the latest trends in AI productivity and best practices
in cloud-native development with Docker.At our KubeCon booth (#J3),
we’ll show you how building in the cloud accelerates development
and simplifies multi-platform builds with a
