Virtualization and Containers A Practical Guide
Virtualization and Containers: A Practical Guide Virtualization and containers help you run software without worrying about the hardware. They share a common goal—reliable, repeatable environments—but they achieve it in different ways. Virtual machines imitate separate computers with their own operating system, kernel, and hardware emulation. Containers run as isolated processes on a single host, sharing the host kernel but keeping application dependencies separate. This distinction matters for speed, density, and management. ...