A development team is building a CI/CD pipeline that must deploy the same build of an application to developers' laptops, an on-premises test cluster, and multiple public cloud providers. They need a lightweight, portable mechanism that bundles the application together with all required libraries so it runs identically everywhere. Which technology satisfies this requirement?
Containerization enables developers to package applications along with all their dependencies into isolated units called containers. This approach ensures that the application runs consistently regardless of the environment, enhancing portability and security by isolating applications from one another. Virtualization, while also providing isolation, involves creating full virtual machines with their own operating systems, which is more resource-intensive. Microservices refer to an architectural style that structures an application as a collection of loosely coupled services, focusing on design rather than deployment. Serverless computing allows developers to build and run applications without managing the underlying infrastructure but does not involve packaging applications with dependencies for consistency across environments.
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