{"id":21484,"date":"2020-11-02T16:36:15","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T16:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.navisite.com\/?p=21484"},"modified":"2020-11-02T16:36:15","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T16:36:15","slug":"containers-and-microservices-a-key-combo-for-digital-transformation-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.navisite.com\/blog\/containers-and-microservices-a-key-combo-for-digital-transformation-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Containers and Microservices: A Key Combo for Digital Transformation Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For businesses looking to modernize their IT infrastructure, the public cloud promises enormous cost savings, efficiencies and scalability\u2014enabling businesses to rapidly respond to new demands or challenges. As more organizations migrate workloads off-premises to public clouds such as AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, two technology approaches offer a powerful combination for ensuring digital transformation success\u2014containers and microservices.<\/p>\n<p>The following providers an overview of containers and microservices, the benefits of each approach and how they work together.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are containers?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>A container is a self-contained package that allows users to deploy applications (or code) without the need for a platform dependency. This is important for organizations today because it means they can modernize and scale on legacy platforms as well as in new cloud environments. In other words, containers introduce an effective and fast way for organizations to overcome hurdles associated with the modernization of applications and infrastructure stacks created by legacy IT environments.<\/p>\n<p>Here are five key benefits of using containers:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Improved total cost of ownership (TCO)<\/strong> \u2013 Containers can be described as lightweight virtual machines (VM) without the overhead associated with having a dedicated operating system and\/or dependency to run an application. Not only does this reduce the cost and effort of maintaining and managing application stacks, but it also minimizes infrastructure, software licensing and operating costs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rapid deployment<\/strong> \u2013 Containers support the agile framework and DevOps methodologies, leading to accelerated software development cycles, as well as faster test and production release cycles.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Portability<\/strong> \u2013 Applications running in containers can be deployed quickly to multiple different operating systems and hardware platforms and across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Strong security<\/strong> \u2013 Containers run in a silo and keep applications isolated from each other, which means fewer conflicting dependencies and resource contention as well as contained threats.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Orchestration and automation<\/strong> \u2013 With extensive cluster and application management, containers can be automated to deploy or change scopes with definitions and auto-functions.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>What are microservices and where do they come into play?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Microservices are a software development methodology that incorporates modular, independent application codes, which perform specific tasks or functions. In recent times, Microservices have transformed the application development landscape from the older, bulkier, monolithic architecture\u2014where each application was written as one large block of code\u2014to an evolved architecture that splits the application into multiple subsets of services that perform fine-grained functions. These subsets of services can run within containers, which makes them extremely fluid with the requirements of modern application development and cloud-native projects.<\/p>\n<p>For example, monolithic applications are hard to scale, while microservices ensure scalability based on demand. Monolithic applications require a complete shutdown for upgrades and fixes, while microservices ensure subsets of an application can be worked on without impacting the service of other components within the application.<\/p>\n<p>Here are five benefits of using microservices within a container framework:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Accelerated DevOps<\/strong> \u2013 DevOps teams can work on a reduced codebase, compared to a broader one in a monolithic application. This enables easy configuration of source codes, expediting turnaround times of integrated development environments, and reducing complexities and dependencies of functions. Additionally, the microservices architecture accelerates the enhancement and update process, because changes are made to only a subset of services rather than the entire application.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fast remediation<\/strong> \u2013 Because the architecture is autonomous and independent, faults on microservices are easy to identify and fix.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Maximum uptime<\/strong> \u2013 With containers, additional images can be scaled through clustering to maintain application functionality without impacting other service components.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Scalability<\/strong> \u2013 Rather than launching multiple application instances, with containers, it\u2019s possible to scale out only specific microservices code, which helps in load balancing and scaling based on demand (up or down).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Layered security<\/strong> \u2013 Each microservice within the container is an independent application code, and the independent codes talk to each other only over exposed APIs\u2014ensuring a layered approach to security that mitigates risk.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Dynamic Duo <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Together, containers and microservices empower organizations running legacy IT environments to make fundamental IT infrastructure improvements that can respond to new demands in their business, enable accelerated digital transformation to cloud-native projects and empower DevOps teams to modernize application development. 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