IT has undergone a series of significant shifts over the years, from physical infrastructure to virtual, and how infrastructure was managed and maintained. This shift led IT through the digital transformation era, introducing various types of clouds and “As-a-Service” models. Although virtualization of infrastructure solved many issues, it did not fix all of them. The Agile nature of CI/CD (Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery) quickly exposed the weaknesses of large, complex monolithic architectures, leading to the birth of microservices and containerization. The introduction of virtual machines enabled IT to increase the efficiency of compute resources. Containerization allows even more efficient use of compute resources, with a more lightweight approach to sharing the OS kernel. As more organizations shift their infrastructure to containerized environments, services like vulnerability management must adapt and provide solutions that are native to these environments. Containers are standalone units of software that package code and underlying dependencies, allowing applications to run faster, more reliably, and be transferred easily between environments. Containers are lightweight, containing code, runtime, system tools, system libraries, configuration files, and anything else required for an application to run efficiently and independently. This makes containers ideal for hosting mission-critical production applications. Recent trends indicate that more than…Read More