Understanding containers

Applications are getting more complex, and the demand to develop faster puts stress on your infrastructure, IT teams, and processes. Containers help you alleviate pain points and iterate quickly—across multiple environments.

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Quickly build and deploy applications at scale, while you modernize the ones you already have.

What are containers?

Containers are a technology that allow applications to be packaged and isolated with their entire runtime environment. This makes it easier to maintain consistent behavior and functionality while moving the contained application between environments (dev, test, production) and across public, private, hybrid cloud, and on-premise. Because they are lightweight and portable, containers provide opportunities for faster development and meeting business needs as they arise.

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Resources

Report

Red Hat® named a Leader in 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for container management

E-book

How to use Red Hat OpenShift® as a modern application platform

E-book

O'Reilly provides reusable Kubernetes patterns to design and implement cloud-native applications

Training courses

Customer success stories

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ttb adopts microservices with Red Hat OpenShift and Dynatrace

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Colombian government uses Red Hat OpenShift to digitize thousands of processes

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Point Duty achieves critical data integration with Red Hat OpenShift

More about containers

Products

An enterprise application platform with a unified set of tested services for bringing apps to market on your choice of infrastructure.

Resources

Podcast

Command Line Heroes Season 1, Episode 5:
"The Containers Derby"

Training

Free training course

Running Containers with Red Hat Technical Overview

Free training course

Containers, Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift Technical Overview

Free training course

Developing Cloud-Native Applications with Microservices Architectures