Ah, 2021. The year we waited all 2020 for. Linux containers helped organizations get and stay agile—a key marker for getting through 2020 and ready for whatever comes next. Here are three things organizations should keep on their container radar for the coming year (and then some).

Containers and virtualization

When Linux containers started to gain popularity, there was a lot of discussion about “containers versus virtual machines.” Today, the discussion is moving toward “containers and virtual machines.”

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This is especially true as many companies face the reality of their past—that is, their legacy systems—as they expand their use of containers and Kubernetes. Sure, writing everything from scratch is a way to go, but it’s not possible for most companies. They only have so much money to do so many things. We saw this with Unix to Linux. We saw it with Linux on bare metal to Linux on VMs. We see it with anything new.

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