Containers vs Virtual Machines
VMs virtualise hardware and each runs a full guest OS. Containers share the host kernel and isolate processes with namespaces and cgroups, so they start in milliseconds and are megabytes, not gigabytes.
VMs virtualise hardware and each runs a full guest OS. Containers share the host kernel and isolate processes with namespaces and cgroups, so they start in milliseconds and are megabytes, not gigabytes.