Containerization Best Practices- Using Docker and Kubernetes for Enterprise Applications

Abstract

The modern enterprise application ecosystem that containerization has become a part of has benefited containerization by greatly improving scalability, flexibility, and resource optimization. This research focuses on the key practices for adopting these technologies in enterprise operations. Docker is a tool that helps us develop and run software simply, better helping us package it fast and securely by creating containers of our apps with all the required dependencies inside them, assuring consistency across environments. Docker is Extended by an orchestration tool, Kubernetes, which automates the deployment, scaling, and collection of information in Kubernetes, which allows it to scale up or down for various reasons, such as increased or decreased computer resources, to handle the load balancing and provide fault tolerance. This paper also discusses the best practices for containerization in enterprise environments, such as security and performance optimization. In addition, combining Docker and Kubernetes within CI/CD pipelines eases seamless, automated, fast software delivery and reliability. The study also discusses the future trends of containerization, such as the developments in the orchestration tools, the insertion of AI and machine learning into containerized environments, and the surging of edge computing, as these things will help push the use of containerization in enterprise applications even more. The history of Docker and Kubernetes is seeing enterprises develop, deploy, and manage those apps in an increasingly agile, cost-effective, and scalable manner that suits the changing needs of business today.