Learning Windows Server Containers

Comparing containerization and VM virtualization

Containers, or VMs, intend to solve a common problem of resource wastage, manual efforts in resource procurement, and high costs for running monolithic applications. Comparing VMs with containers is ideal since each share their own set of pros and cons, a few comparisons are:

• Virtualization layer: Containers are very different from virtualization by design. VM virtualization is at a hardware level, which allows multiple VMs to run in parallel on a single hardware, whereas the containers run out of a single host OS as if each container is running in its own OS. This design has a disadvantage of disallowing containers to be of varied OS. But this can be easily overcome by using a hybrid computing ...