This chapter is dedicated to architecture, so the term container refers to something completely different from a Python container (an object with a __contains__ method), explored in Chapter 2, Pythonic Code. A container is a process that runs in the operating system under a group with certain restrictions and isolation considerations. Concretely we refer to Docker containers, which allow managing applications (services or processes) as independent components.
Containers represent another way of delivering software. Creating Python packages taking into account the considerations in the previous section is more suitable for libraries, or frameworks, where the goal is to reuse code and take advantage of using a single place where ...
