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== Usage ==

The ''containers'' are basically a fully functional and portable cloud or non-cloud computing environment surrounding the application and keeping it independent from other parallelly running environments.<ref>{{Cite web|title=What is containerization?|url=https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/cloud-native-apps/what-is-containerization|url-status=live|access-date=2021-07-10|website=www.redhat.com|publisher=[[RedHat]]|language=en}}</ref> Individually each container simulates a different software application and run isolated processes<ref>{{Cite web|lastlast1=Hinck|firstfirst1=Tim Maurer, Garrett|last2=Hinck|first2=Tim Maurer, Garrett|title=Cloud Security: A Primer for Policymakers|url=https://carnegieendowment.org/2020/08/31/cloud-security-primer-for-policymakers-pub-82597|access-date=2021-07-10|website=Carnegie Endowment for International Peace|language=en}}</ref> by bundling related configuration files, libraries and dependencies.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Rubens|first=Paul|date=2017-06-27|title=What are containers and why do you need them?|url=https://www.cio.com/article/2924995/what-are-containers-and-why-do-you-need-them.html|access-date=2021-07-10|website=CIO|language=en}}</ref> But, collectively multiple containers share a common [[Kernel (operating system)|OS Kernel]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Containerization|url=https://www.ibm.com/in-en/cloud/learn/containerization|access-date=2021-07-10|website=www.ibm.com|language=en-in}}</ref>

In recent times, the containerization technology has been widely adopted by [[Amazon Web Services]], [[Microsoft Azure]] and [[Google Cloud Platform]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=December 2019|first=Jonas P. DeMuro 18|title=What is container technology?|url=https://www.techradar.com/in/news/what-is-container-technology|access-date=2021-07-10|website=TechRadar India|date=18 December 2019|language=en}}</ref>

== Types of containers ==

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== Further reading ==

===Journal articles===

* {{cite journal |last1=Bentaleb |first1=Ouafa |last2=Belloum |first2=Adam S. Z. |last3=Sebaa |first3=Abderrazak |last4=El-Maouhab |first4=Aouaouche |title=Containerization technologies: taxonomies, applications and challenges |journal=The Journal of Supercomputing |date=8 June 2021 |doi=10.1007/s11227-021-03914-1 |s2cid=236220833 }}

* {{cite journal |last1=Watada |first1=Junzo |last2=Roy |first2=Arunava |last3=Kadikar |first3=Ruturaj |last4=Pham |first4=Hoang |last5=Xu |first5=Bing |title=Emerging Trends, Techniques and Open Issues of Containerization: A Review |journal=IEEE Access |date=2019 |volume=7 |pages=152443–152472 |doi=10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2945930 |s2cid=204970781 }}

* {{cite journal |last1=van den Berg |first1=Tom |last2=Siegel |first2=Barry |last3=Cramp |first3=Anthony |title=Containerization of high level architecture-based simulations: A case study |journal=The Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation: Applications, Methodology, Technology |date=April 2017 |volume=14 |issue=2 |pages=115–138 |doi=10.1177/1548512916662365 |s2cid=64405143 }}

* {{cite book |doi=10.1007/978-981-15-8411-4_4 |chapter=Containerization Design for Autonomous and Controllable Cloud Distributed System |title=Communications, Signal Processing, and Systems |series=Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering |year=2021 |last1=Zhang |first1=Xiao |last2=Tang |first2=Yu |last3=Li |first3=Hao |last4=Liu |first4=Shaotao |last5=Lin |first5=Di |volume=654 |pages=30–38 |isbn=978-981-15-8410-7 |s2cid=236762442 }}

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* {{cite book |doi=10.1007/978-3-030-24305-0_30 |chapter=Virtualization, Containerization, Composition, and Orchestration of Cloud Computing Services |title=Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2019 |series=Lecture Notes in Computer Science |year=2019 |last1=Odun-Ayo |first1=Isaac |last2=Geteloma |first2=Victor |last3=Eweoya |first3=Ibukun |last4=Ahuja |first4=Ravin |volume=11622 |pages=403–417 |isbn=978-3-030-24304-3 |s2cid=195769647 }}

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===Books===

* Gabriel N. Schenker, Hideto Saito, Hui-Chuan Chloe Lee, Ke-Jou Carol Hsu, (2019) ''Getting Started with Containerization: Reduce the operational burden on your system by automating and managing your containers'', [[Packt Publishing]], {{ISBN|9781838649036}}