Possible for bacteria to burst container? This is kind of a thought experiment, but are there any conditions under which bacteria could multiply enough to burst the container they're in?
Thoughts so far: Bacteria often need oxygen to multiply, but I believe not always? They need a food source, but perhaps despite that mass already being present they might still have a larger overall volume afterwards?
For the sake of this question, I'd like to be fairly loose with the word "container", i.e. not necessarily something solid glass or even solid for that matter, but at least closed. Perhaps I could have bacteria in a bubble and they could burst that? 
Thanks for indulging!
 A: Yes, bacteria can and do explode containers. Case in point: cans of Swedish surströmming. This is fermented herring, a foul-smelling food-to-scare-foreigners-with. When left long enough the continued fermentation releases gas, which increases the pressure in the can. This sometimes leads to the can bursting. A recent case involved a forgotten can lodged between a beam and a roof, raising the roof by two inches. While there are plentiful stories about exploding cans, in reality bursting tends to be more sedate and just involve foul-smelling contents spurting out. Of course, if the can is heated by a fire it can explode because of overpressure, but here it is an external thermal source doing the work, not the bacteria. 
The original question was about bacterial multiplying enough to burst a container. This is less likely. The reason is that the density of bacterial typically is $\approx 1$ g/cm$^3$ like most bacterial food, so if the bacteria convert the food to more bacteria there is no change in overall volume. In the surströmming case the gas released has a far lower density, so it tries to expand the volume but is resisted by the container, producing a higher pressure. In theory there might be bacterial food that is high density enough that the conversion of it to bacteria might similarly lower the density to produce higher pressure. Sugar has density 1.59 g/cm$^3$ and yeast cells has density 1.1029, so converting pure sugar into yeast would increase the volume by 44%, which might break a weak container. 
