January 2018
Beginner to intermediate
412 pages
9h 33m
English
Containers, like virtualization, create isolated guest systems, but, while Virtual Machines create a completely separate environment, containers share the same kernel as the host system and hence are considered to be closer to the hardware. Both virtualization and containers incur performance penalties due to multiple layers of abstraction—the translation of functionalities between a host and guest OS. However, containers in general have a higher level of performance because they rely on and directly use features of the guest OS instead of creating a separate OS ecosystem.
Popular containers include Docker, CoreOS, and many others. Today, containers are used for the large-scale management of mainly ...
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