As the U.S. government advances to a war-fighting posture that increasingly integrates emerging technologies, the Department of Defense (DoD) is modernizing computing infrastructure to support new capabilities. At the same time, virtualized, mission-critical applications must run uninterrupted.

In a recent interview, Travis Steele, chief architect at Red Hat, discussed best practices for virtualization today, how virtualization and containers can coexist, and how a common platform for both creates a pathway to modernization.