Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes

Abstract

In this chapter, we are going to deal with application containers whose introduction has revolutionized the contemporary software world. Containers have impacted the way we build, ship, and run applications and therefore largely changed the process of software development. They empowered the new architectural style oriented around systems composed of large number of highly specialized, autonomous, and usually small-in-size applications called microservices. It is no exaggeration to say that, on top of application containers, there has emerged a new ecosystem of standards, platforms, components, tools, libraries, protocols, and services. The ecosystem is truly immense in scope, powered by a broad open source community and provided with rich corporate sponsorship.