Impact of containers on networking
Containers have undoubtedly meant that a lot of networking has shifted into the application tier, so really, containers can be seen as a PaaS offering in its truest form.
Infrastructure is, of course, still required to run containers, be it on bare-metal servers or virtual machines. The merits of virtual machines being used to run containers long term are debatable, as in a way it means a double set of virtualization, and anyone using nested virtualization will know it isn't always optimal for performance. So with more organizations using containers to deploy their microservice architectures, it will undoubtedly mean that users having a choice to run containers on either virtual or physical machines will be in ...
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