June 2017
Intermediate to advanced
274 pages
7h 45m
English
Let's understand the difference between containers and virtual machines--at the surface level, both are tools to achieve isolation and virtualization.
The architectural difference between virtual machines and containers is quite evident from the following diagram:

In virtual machine internals, we can see that there is a host operating system along with a kernel, and on top of it, the hypervisor layer. Hosted applications have to bring in their own operating system and environment. In containers though, the containerization technology layer serves as a single layer and is shared across different ...
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