: Containers are intended to be ephemeral—nothing in the application's environment should live longer than the application itself.
: For production stability, you must set memory and CPU limits to prevent a single container from exhausting host resources and crashing the system. Docker: Up & Running
: When you deploy, you throw away the old environment entirely. This prevents "configuration drift" where apps accidentally rely on artifacts or manual "hotfixes" left behind by previous releases. Building for Production : Containers are intended to be ephemeral—nothing in
Docker has fundamentally changed how we build and ship software by providing a layer of isolation that reduces the "human communication burden" between developers and operations. Docker: Up & Running
: Learn to use multi-stage builds to create the smallest possible production-ready containers by separating build-time dependencies from the final runtime.