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title: "Container"
date: "2021-02-18T03:45:56+00:00"
url: "https://checkmarx.com/glossary/what-is-container-security/"
description: "Container Security: A Glossary of Best Practices and Tools. Protect Your Containerized Applications with Checkmarx. [Container]"
---

# Container

A container is a standard unit of software that packages up code and all its dependencies so the application runs quickly and reliably from one computing environment to another.