The growth in popularity of containers and microservices is serving up significant challenges to developers and IT departments. As the speed of deployment and changes to what is in the field increases, new approaches to the arc of development, deployment, monitoring and upgrading are required. However, experts say that the task of putting a platform in place to meet those needs can be done incrementally. They add that the human element is key and that helpful tools to automate and ease the process are emerging
Paul Wallace, Pulse Secure’s Director of Product Marketing suggests that containers and microservices don’t have to use DevOps, but that a platform with the same basic attributes is needed. The bottom line is the same: “Container environments are designed with rapid iteration and service versioning in mind,” he wrote