On July 25th, REI Systems’ Solutions Architect Sanjeev Pulapaka and Senior Technical Architect Munish Satia published an article in GCN titled, “How agencies can use containers for IT (not just shipping).” Pulapaka and Satia explain how Government agencies can use containers to increase efficiency and automation without sacrificing accountability or security. Within a DevOps approach, containerization bundles applications and their dependencies into a single software package. These “containers” can be easily moved between environments and operating systems/platforms. Pulapaka and Satia describe the challenges associated with containerization as well as solutions for overcoming those challenges, the benefits of containerization, and how agencies can get started.
