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Book Review

Container Storage

for Dummies

by Ed Tittel, Sayan Saha, Steve Watt,
Michael Adam and Irshad Raihan

In Container Storage for Dummies,
you will learn about persistent storage
for modern applications, storage for
and in containers, and dynamic storage
provisioning for developers.

CONTAINER STORAGE for Dummies by
Ed Tittel, Sayan Saha, Steve Watt, Michael
Adam and Irshad Raihan helps you
understand why containers are all the rage
and how persistent storage for containers is
an important challenge.
What is a container, exactly?
A container is a small, lightweight bundle
of one or more applications and the
dependencies needed for that code to
run. That means a container has code,
a runtime environment, system tools
and libraries – the same stuff that
you traditionally install on a server. A
container can also house infrastructure
services such as storage, or a hybrid of
apps and storage. Packaging everything
together makes a container highly
portable and results in fewer integration
errors.
Linux containers are an industry looking for a way to push more code out the
phenomenon that is top of mind in door, with more stable and usable code from
development shops around the globe. the get-go.
Containers have quickly moved from ‘science Developer focus and interest has led to
project’ to production status in just a few new containers built to permit applications to
years, for many good reasons. The meteoric scale rapidly, be more reliable and off er better
uptick in interest in containers is driven performance than more conventional means
primarily by developers and DevOps staff or methods. While developers like to think

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