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Containers vs Virtual Machines: The Problem Docker Solves

Opening whiteboard from the episode, titled It works on my machine, with the red note the machine never ships with the app and two blue topics: what containers fix, and how they differ from virtual machines.

TL;DR30 sec7 min coredeep dive optional In the containers vs virtual machines comparison, a virtual machine boots a complete guest operating system on virtual hardware, while a container runs the application and its dependencies as plain processes on a kernel it shares with the host: that one difference makes containers lighter, faster to start and… Continue reading →