Containers
Containers are also a virtualization technology; however, they do not virtualize a physical server. Instead, a container is an operating-system-level virtualization. What this means is that containers share the operating system kernel provided by the host among themselves along with the host. Multiple containers running on a host (physical or virtual) share the host operating system kernel. Containers ensure that they reuse the host kernel instead of each having a dedicated kernel to themselves.
Containers are also completely isolated from the host and other containers, such as a virtual machine. Containers use Windows storage filter drivers and session isolation for providing isolation of operating system services such as the ...
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