A Brief History of Containers: From the 1970s Till Now

This report provides a chronological overview of container technology from 1979 to the 2020s, highlighting key milestones (chroot, jails, LXC, Docker, Kubernetes), the maturation of container tooling and runtimes, growing security focus (shift-left, ATT&CK for containers, eBPF), enterprise adoption patterns, and the emergence of AI workloads as a major use case; it is an informational technology/history piece rather than an incident or threat intelligence report.