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Learning Windows Server Containers
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Learning Windows Server Containers

by Srikanth Machiraju
April 2017
Beginner
404 pages
9h 30m
English
Packt Publishing
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Summary

In this chapter we covered the following points:

  • VMs help create isolated environments, each with guest OS. Software applications or services can run inside a VM with complete isolation from another VM.
  • Hypervisors can run discrete VMs such as Linux and Windows together.
  • VMs suffer from portability and packaging due to the huge size and intense orchestration needs.
  • Containerization helps run software systems as isolated processes inside a machine. Containers increase the density of applications per machine, and also provide application packaging and shipping capabilities.
  • Windows Server 2016 supports containerization using kernel features such as filesystems, namespaces, and registry.
  • Windows Server 2016 runs two types of containers, ...
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