The following are the advantages of a container-oriented development and deployment approach:

• A container-oriented approach eliminates the challenges that arise from inconsistent environment setups.
• You can do fast application scale-up by instancing new containers as required.
• Requires minimal usage of kernels on the operating system.
• You can create the number of containers for a microservice, depending on application requirements.
• You can easily allocate resources to processes and run your application in various environments.
• Containerization decreases the time of development, testing, and deployment of applications and services.
• Bug fixing and tracking are also less complicated as there is no difference between running your application, testing, and production.
• It is a very cost-effective solution.
• It is a great option for microservice-based applications, such as DevOps, and continuous deployment.
• Container images are reusable artifacts in similar situations.
• Containers are popular choices for cloud-based elastic applications because of their scalability. Container images are very small, don't require booting of the OS, and take little time to start and shut down.

We have seen some benefits of a container-oriented approach to application development and deployment. There are some key limitations of containers. Let's see some drawbacks or challenges to this approach.