

Truth be told, certain software applications in the wild You should opt for virtual machines when you want to host an entire operating system or ecosystem or maybe to run applications incompatible with the underlying environment.

A container is meant to be a lightweight environment that you spin up to host one to a few isolated applications at bare-metal performance. Both have a specific purpose and place with very little overlap, and one doesn't obsolete the other.

Sidenote: people often ask about the difference between containers and virtual machines. Need to understand the many pieces that make it all To understand the technology completely, you first Its impact and overall footprint to the underlying computing system. Portability and ability to isolate working environments, thus limiting Recent rise in popularity of container technology within the data center is a direct result of its Technology comes in many forms, with Docker as the most popular. Everyone's heard the term, but what exactly are containers?
