Container technology is fundamentally changing how systems are developed, tested, deployed, and managed. The main functions of embedded containers are to wrap up applications and services with all their dependencies and to isolate multiple software components running on the same hardware.

 

Embedded developers can benefit from the infrastructure-agnostic, scalable execution environment enabled by containers. Imagine a design process — from development to test to deployment to production to management — in which developers can share resources, pipelines, and results across the team. Instead of being limited by the number of development boards available, companies could exploit the elasticity of the cloud to set up multiple instances of a system on demand.

 

Learn how containerization technology is bridging the gap between embedded and enterprise platforms to meet emerging IoT requirements.