Containers offer significant benefits, including the ability to quickly spin up apps, deploy them anywhere, and enhance scalability – all of which grows business agility and speeds innovation. In addition, containers offer portability and greater security through immutable infrastructure. They remove traditional stumbling blocks like dependencies and differences in OS and infrastructures.
Despite these benefits, container adoption has been slow. There are several reasons why containers haven’t caught on as quickly as one might expect, at least when compared to other digitally transformative technologies.