We just spent some time going over virtual machines , where a machine stack is virtualized within an image file. This allows you to run multiple virtual machines on a single physical server, with the hypervisor managing the interaction between the guest operating system and the actual hardware, providing a layer of abstraction between the OS and the hardware. However, since each of these VMs must bring their own licensed OS, they are large images, and there tends to be a lot of “wasted ...
5. Containers
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