Sitecore Containerization

What about the technology?

We’ve talked about the business case, but what does this mean on the backend and for my technical team?

Abstraction, the key element to containers, is your friend

A traditional infrastructure involves multiple virtual machines and systems all of which need to be managed and have myriad points of failure. There’s lots of complexity in each environment and all of that adds risk and the possibility of failure. Containerization abstracts away the system entirely. There is no operating system to manage. There are no system configuration VM issues to deal with once you’re containerized.

Local Environments & Deployments Become Simpler

Your containers can be deployed on a developer’s laptop just as easily as in any other environment. No longer do you have to spend hours or days setting up a local developer environment. The developer loads the container on their local system and it’s an exact copy of what goes live on your site and deployment processes to get changes live benefit from this simplicity as well and your deployment processes become more robust, faster and safer.

Monitoring Your Project is Greatly Simplified

Using containers means being able to leverage the built-in and very sophisticated monitoring options that the system provides, which leads to reduced application complexity and much greater insights into application health than you get with a traditional approach.