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CHAPTER 3 The Impact of Containers 25 These materials are © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Any dissemination, distribution, or unauthorized use is strictly prohibited. what this means, let's compare a container deployment with a traditional deployment. In a traditional system, you'd have your storage, operations, networking, and database teams creating and configuring virtual machines, databases, and firewalling for you, and then deploying the application onto it. If it doesn't quite work (because the developer's environment was subtly different), they would reconfigure the infrastructure until it does. Now, consider the myriad options you have with regard to infrastructure — physical, virtual, and cloud. Ensuring 100 percent consistency across all of this is nearly impossible. This consistency comes in the form of the abstraction provided by the container engine.