Author: Matthew Hughes / Source: The Next Web
DigitalOcean is one of the most popular VPS services around. For as little as $5 per month, you can provision your own Linux virtual machine (which it calls Droplets) in a matter of seconds, allowing you to host your own website or server application. However, the company was losing ground as developers increasingly moved towards containerization.
From a developer perspective, containerization is an amazing idea, and offers better consistency, security, and ease of deployment. Here’s how I described it in my How developers will work in 2018 post, which looked at upcoming trends in software development:
When you put a bit of code into a container, you’re essentially packaging it in a certain way. It contains pretty much everything you need to run the software — like libraries, tools, settings — and binds it into an executable that you can deploy pretty much everywhere.
Containerized software is consistent. It runs the same…
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