At the moment, cloud containers are a hot topic in technology, and security in particular.

The world’s top technology companies, including Microsoft, Google and Facebook, all use them.

Although it’s still early days, containers are seeing increasing use in production environments.

They promise a streamlined, easy-to-deploy and secure method of implementing specific infrastructure requirements, and they also offer an alternative to virtual machines.

The key differentiator with containers is the minimalist nature of their deployment.

Unlike virtual machines, they don’t need a full OS to be installed within the container, and they don’t need a virtual copy of the host server’s hardware.

Containers are able to operate with the minimum amount of resources to perform the task they were designed for; this can mean just a few pieces of software, libraries and the basics of an Operating System.

With guest Stephen Bourke, Public Cloud IaaS Specialist at Oracle.