August 2018
Intermediate to advanced
372 pages
9h 29m
English
Containers provide a lightweight approach to virtualization that consists of providing the bare minimum that an application requires in order to work. In the old days, VMs used to be the main choice for provisioning environments and running applications. However, they require a complete OS in order to work. Containers, on the other hand, reuse the host OS to run and provision the required environments. Let's learn more about this concept by looking at the following diagram:

In the preceding diagram, we can see the Virtual Machines (VMs) on the left side and the containers on the right side. Let's ...
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