Containerization and Docker

Containerization

Containerization is widely adopted across various sectors of the software industry. Currently, containers are, in most cases, the standard for deploying, managing, and scaling applications efficiently. With technologies like Docker and Kubernetes, containerization enables developers to create lightweight, portable, and consistent environments across different systems. This has enhanced development speed, improved scalability, and allowed seamless integration with cloud infrastructure.

Gone are the days of monolith applications in a single environment with long development cycles and poor scalability. This is the era of microservice architecture in multiple environments that allow fast iterative improvements in development cycles of just one to two weeks.

Every software developer should learn at least the basics of containers to stay up to date – and because containers make developers’ lives a lot easier.

Docker for containerization

Docker is the most widely used technology for containerisation. It allows developers to package an application with all of its dependencies into a standardized unit for software development.

We at Montel Intergalactic organised a workshop for Mimmit Koodaa girls' coding community. The topic of the hands-on coding workshop was “Introduction to Docker and containers” and it was designed for all intermediate level developers comfortable with using command line and with some web development experience. Our full-stack developer Constanza was the trainer at the workshop and was super happy to have 50 enthusiastic developers online with her.

Follow the Hands-on Docker workshop

If you are interested in familiarising yourself with Docker and containerisation, you can watch the recording of the workshop. Constanza will guide you through the basics of what Docker is and how it works (compared to the traditional servers) and teach you how to use and build Docker images as well as how to run Docker containers. Basically, you can play with Docker yourself following my step-by-step instructions. All you need to do beforehand is to create an account at DockerHub before the workshop and take a nice position in your chair.

Thanks for reading and watching! If you are interested in hearing how our DevOps experts could help you to run your apps in containers, please don’t hesitate to book a free consultation meeting with us.

*This worskhop was organized in 5/2021 and the original blog post was written by our ex-colleague Constanza Escobar. The blog content has been revisited and slightly edited in 9/2024.