Why use virtual containers?

Traditional software development:

• Business need
• Approval process   }
• Hardware purchase  } Use IaaS instead - Infrastructure as a service
• Software development
• Deployment         } Use PaaS instead - Platform as a service
• Feedback

The future:

• Linux containers AKA Docker
• Security/compliance are happy
• Operations are happy
• Business is happy
• Developers are happy
• Kubernetes
• June 2014: Google open source container management project
• Red Hat is collaborating

Source: Jeremy Brown of tenfourty.com / @tenfourty