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Cloud Native Python
book

Cloud Native Python

by Manish Sethi
July 2017
Intermediate to advanced
374 pages
8h
English
Packt Publishing
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Few facts about Docker versus virtualization

There are a lot of organizations that are still working successfully on traditional VMs. Having said that, there are organizations that have either moved their application to Docker or are ready to do so. Here are a few reasons why Docker has more potential than virtual machines:

  • When it comes to comparing Docker and virtual machines, Docker presents a lower system overhead than the virtual machine.
  • Secondly, applications in the Docker environment have a generally higher performance than the virtual machines.
  • While the VM software technology named Hypervisor, which acts as an agent between the VM environment and the underlying hardware, providing the necessary layer of abstraction; in Docker, ...
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