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CHAPTER 2 The Benefits of Application Containerization 11 These materials are © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Any dissemination, distribution, or unauthorized use is strictly prohibited. The Benefits of Application Containerization C ontainers bring with them a bunch of benefits. In this chapter, I outline a number of these benefits and show you how they can help your IT function be more efficient and less expensive. Application Development Processes and Capabilities Modern data center infrastructure solutions are helping to drive changes to the way that software is developed. Between the promise of the cloud and local data center container deployments, today's developers really have it made from an infrastructure standpoint. At no time in history has infrastructure been so avail- able and so able to be manipulated. Chapter 2 IN THIS CHAPTER » Seeing how containers support modern development release processes » Understanding why applications and infrastructure need to be more tightly coupled » Digging into the hot topic of workload portability