## Containerize Packaging an application and its dependencies into a single, standalone unit known as a container. Containers encapsulate the entire runtime environment: the application, its dependencies, libraries, binaries, and configuration files. They are platform-independent, which means they can run on any infrastructure that supports containerization technology, such as Docker or Kubernetes. Containerization is the most popular way Python programmers run code in the cloud. [[How to Develop for the Cloud]]