APPLICATION CONTAINMENT

• If all the applications are compiled for the same operating system, then we do not need
complete virtualization to provide the features. We use Application containment.
• While using this system, the operating system and its devices are virtualized providing
processes within the zone with the illusion that they are the only processes on the
system.
• This system is used because it is lighter than other virtualization methods in that it uses
fewer system resources, it is faster to instantiate and destroy and more similar to
processes than virtual machines.
• Containers are also easy to automate and manage leading to the use of tools like docker
and kubernetes. These aim to make it simple to run entire suites of distributed
applications like a regular operating system running a single program and offer
deployment of full applications that consist of many processes within containers and also
offer monitoring and other administration features.