Containers provide a way to package and run applications reliably from one computing environment to another. The document discusses how containers helped different teams at an organization overcome challenges with testing, deploying, and managing applications. It introduces containers as a more efficient alternative to virtual machines that allows for continuous integration, high testing throughput, increased server utilization, and microservices architectures. In the end, using containers helped the development, QA, operations, and infrastructure teams work better together and accelerate their software delivery.