Rapid innovation – platform-neutral DevOps skills benefit the shift-left strategy

In the DevOps world, we hear a lot about shifting to the left. This means taking responsibilities that were once part of the technical operations organization and moving them into the DevOps and application development realms. In this world, Docker becomes a really important tool for this sort of migration because the language used to describe how applications are built, wired, and deployed is based on Docker and Kubernetes platform-neutral APIs. Without this approach, your application development and DevOps staff would need to learn platform-specific details for each target environment, such as AWS, Azure, or GCE. This not only creates a steeper learning curve, it also creates another layer of locking into a vendor's platform.