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Building Microservices with .NET Core
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Building Microservices with .NET Core

by Soumya Mukherjee, Gaurav Aroraa, Lalit Kale, Manish Kanwar
June 2017
Intermediate to advanced
274 pages
7h 45m
English
Packt Publishing
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Suitability of containers over virtual machines

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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