Hands-On Edge Analytics with Azure IoT

Containers

Containers are similar to virtual machines with the exception of not having to install a separate operating system. This makes containers quick to implement and lightweight. Many more containers may exist on a physical server than virtual machines can. An application and all of the dependencies required for the application are stored in the container. In the following diagram, we can see how containers share an operating system through the use of a container engine:

Docker, an open source project first released in 2013, is one of the most popular container platforms on the market. Docker is available for all of the major operating ...