Containers are a hot topic. The technology, which has been most typified by Docker, enables applications to be deployed as a lightweight set of processes rather than an entire virtual machine (VM).

Docker Swarm on Raspberry Pi is easier than you think.

The idea of running applications within containers – also known as operating system (OS) level virtualisation – is not . The origins of the technology can be traced back to the days of the mainframe.

Have you ever spent hours setting up a development environment, only to find that your application behaves differently on another machine? Or perhaps you’ve wrestled with dependency conflicts that ...