Sometimes talking to your development team can be difficult. You might be asking a lot from your developers with a limited budget, maintenance of existing systems, and tight deadlines. While you empower them to learn new technologies and approaches and give them the tools they need for success, the myriad of new information can be daunting.

Here are five topics to bring to your app dev team to gauge how moving to containers and containerized application services and middleware can help increase productivity and deliver solutions to the business faster. When asking the questions for each topic, consider the list of keywords or phrases the developers might use in their answers. If you hear these phrases, it is probably time to start looking into a Red Hat container deployment model.