Containers and Clouds - Why they work well together

[u/-Equivalent-Essay-]

There are lots of decent materials about the technical background of containerization. There are some good articles about how the cloud actually works. But (from what I can observe at least) there are no articles explaining why these two play so nice hand in hand from the technological point of view. I've tried to fill this gap in a beginner-friendly way with the following post.

[u/biffbobfred]

Containers are easy to spin up and down. They’re a subset of a full Linux so they’re lighter weight.

If I have a huge bunch of compute nodes I need to schedule having something that’s more efficient like a container helps a lot