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🐳 Why Did Containers Happen? Reflections from a Decade in the Trenches by Docker’s Former CTO
A thoughtful retrospective from a key player in containerization, connecting DevOps maturity with today’s focus on efficiency and AI-driven innovation.
In his essay *’Ignore previous directions 8: devopsdays’*, Justin Cormack reflects on a decade of containerization, DevOps, and the transition from virtual machines to Kubernetes. Drawing on Docker’s early history, he explains how containers transformed cloud development by simplifying application management—though at the cost of new inefficiencies and cultural drift in DevOps. He concludes that while Docker and Kubernetes have become ‘boring’ staples of infrastructure, innovation energy has now shifted toward AI.
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