Chapter 1
Introduction to Containers in Windows Server 2019
IN THIS CHAPTER
Understanding containers in Windows Server 2019
Examining common use cases for containers
Deciding what type of containers you want to use
Implementing containers at scale
Virtualization drastically changed the way that IT operated in organizations of all sizes, but containers have had a large impact as well. You may be wondering why someone would want to use containers. They’re just virtual machines (VMs), right? Well, not exactly. The technologies may seem similar, but containers and VMs are not the same. VMs are presenting virtual hardware to the user. Containers don’t expose the hardware or the operating system; they’re meant to run applications in isolation.
In this chapter, I fill you in on containers — what they are, why you would use them, and how the Windows Server implementation will work for you.
Understanding Containers
VMs can be thought of as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Although VMs do present virtual hardware to system administrators, the administrators of virtual servers don’t have ...
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