Once every five years, the IT industry witnesses a major technology shift. In the past two decades, we have seen server paradigm evolve into web-based architecture that matured to service orientation before finally moving to the cloud. Today it is containers.

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When launched in 2008, Amazon EC2 was nothing short of a revolution – a self-service portal that launched virtual servers at the click of a button fundamentally changed the lives of developers and IT administrators.

Elasticity and automation introduced the powerful paradigm of programmable infrastructure. Applications became self-aware and could scale-out and scale-in dynamically. This concept was exciting five years ago, but not any more.

Now, we are witnessing a new technology wave in the form of immutable infrastructure and micro-services. Leading this change is a Linux-based technology called containers, where a single kernel runs multiple instances on a single operating system.