What exactly is a container and what makes it different -- and in some cases better -- than a virtual machine? To answer this question, Joey explains why we ever needed containers in the first place.

Virtual machines (VMs) and containers have their place in datacentres, enabling enterprises to ship software quickly while abstracting applications from the underlying infrastructure. So, it isn’t ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. A container is a collection of one or more processes, organized under a single name and ...

There’s a reason why IBM’s YouTube explainer video on “containers vs. virtual machines (VMs)” has 243,000 views and counting. There are still plenty of developers who work with VMs and have just a ...

Hardware virtualization using virtual machines (VMs) has several use cases in embedded systems, ranging from workload consolidation to running applications on legacy operating systems.