**“**Container transport is the lifeblood of global trade. Simple, modular, and ubiquitous.” — That was one of the conclusions of McKinsey’s report on the future of the container transport industry in 2018.

The same goes for container technology in the IT industry. Container technology is a method of packaging an application to run with isolated dependencies and be easily moved around across different systems.

As software is eating the world, and cloud computing has become the new normal, the portability provided by containerized applications is turning on steam.

Just a new tech gimmick?

Before all else, container technology is not new. It was born already in 1979 and shapeshifted its way through adolescence to resurface in 2013, commonly known as Docker.

The challenge to harmoniously manage the ever-growing number of application containers spawned different new solutions to orchestrate and easily schedule those containers. Kubernetes, invented by Google mid-2014, seems to have won the battle and is now considered the go-to solution for container orchestration.

Furthermore, many old- and new technology vendors started building container management platforms on top of the Kubernetes stack.

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