Here's the thing. Containerisation is not only an IT technology, it is an advanced IT technology. And yet, it already looms on the horizon for Operations Technology. ​ And, while the technology opens up massive opportunities for optimisation and efficiency in the OT network, it demands a fundamental rethink of industrial software distribution and management. ​ To find out what this actually means for vendors, engineers, and system integrators in the industrial space, I invited Neil Cresswell for a conversation. ​ Neil is the CEO and Co-Founder of a company called Portainer.io, the most popular Docker Container Management platform that abstracts the complexities of container management with a feature-rich and easy-to-use Graphical User Interface. ​ Below is the outline of our conversation. ​ ✅ What are containers? ✅ Benefits of containerisation at the Industrial Edge ✅ Challenges of adopting containers for Industrial Edge Compute ✅ Key differences between containerisation at the edge and in the cloud ✅ Containerization Approaches and Microservices for IIoT ✅ What is Portainer and How it Works ✅ Use Cases in Industrial IoT ✅ Portainer Products ✅ Reference Architectures for Managing software in OT ✅ Best Practices Containerisation at the Industrial Edge ✅ How a Containerised PLC functions ✅ Impact of Containerisation on Industrial System Integration ✅ The Future of Industrial Software Distribution