VMs, Containers, and Processes
By now, almost all public cloud vendors offer a container strategy, so what is it that makes containers so popular?
To see the value of containers, we should look at some of the most common challenges with application development and application life cycle. Customers have repeatedly asked for guidance on how to handle environmental differences, how to make environments portable, how to increase the density of running services on one machine, and how to isolate services. Containers are the right tool to solve these issues.
Containers enable us to slice up an operating system so that we can securely run multiple applications on a single operating system. If we want to run five applications or services on an operating ...
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