What are Containers, and Why are they Important to Application Development

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Published Feb 14, 2025

If you haven't already spun up a container on our nearly day-old container service, you might be one of the many people with questions about containers, while we're still in the early adopter phase of this transformative technology. This week our Office Hours Hangout features two of the team that helped to launch Carina. Consider this Containers 101 - we'll help answer all your containers questions, and get you ready to try Carina on your own.

Episode 121 : What are Containers, and Why are they Important to Application Development?

Recorded Live: 10-29-2015

Participants
Hosts:
Alan Bush: @AlanBush – Rackspace Community Manager
Drew Cox: @DrewCoxSA – Rackspace Enterprise Technical Advisor
Guests:
Jason Barnhill: Rackspace Containers Project
Simon Jakesch: Rackspace Containers Project

Highlights
What are containers? (3:07)
Leveraging containers (4:40)
Why Carina? (6:57)
Can containers be used in Hybrid or is it cloud-only? (13:11)
Security and containers (18:29)
Which is better to start with; Kubernetes or Mesos? (23:30)
Carina ease of use (26:36)
Speeding up time to market using containers (29:44)
Future of containers (34:27)
Mass adoption of containers (37:59)
Carina and scaling (40:50)
Getting started with Carina (45:10)
Carina account, feedback, and the community (49:19)

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Links:
Carina by Rackspace
https://getcarina.com/