Container deployment involves using container technologies to deploy real life applications. Containers make it possible to build and deploy applications quickly, efficiently, and at large scale.
Container deployment increases development velocity, because it eliminates the need to manually deploy software components and their dependencies at every stage of the development lifecycle. It also improves quality by allowing teams to use repeatable and consistent components in development, testing, and production deployments. It also facilitates microservices architectures, by enabling teams to deploy each microservice as one or more containers, which can be deployed and updated independently of the rest of the application.
Containerized applications can be deployed manually, using script-based automation, or via container platforms. To deploy containers at large scale, organizations use orchestrators, which handle concerns like resource provisioning, container networking, security, and scalability.