Are you thinking about using containers in your organization? Should you be? Containers are being discussed a lot these days as an important tool for software development and application deployment. Do you want to understand how containers work and see how to take advantage of them in your organization. This talk will give you a strong base of understanding about how containers work and cover the benefits of using containers during development, testing, deployment and production. You will learn about the different types of containers, how to setup containers for use on developer workstations (Mac or Windows), managing your container images in a registry, and deploying containers to a host in your data center or a cloud provider like Microsoft Azure. Containers aren't a silver bullet, but they can ease some of the pains of application development.