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Containers vs. VMs

Containers vs. VMs

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Containers vs. VMs

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- [Instructor] Containers bear a lot of similarity to another commonly used technology, VMs or virtual machines. Early in my career, we would often deal with bare metal servers. I'd order a machine and spend a week or two installing software on it. And then I'd drive it to a physical data center and install it in a rack. Eventually this morphed into setting up those physical servers with virtualization software, which is known as a hypervisor so that we could run several virtual servers on each piece of physical hardware. And from there, it morphed into Vms hosted with a cloud provider so that I didn't need to deal with the physical hardware at all. The big benefit of this, at least from my perspective was that I didn't have to do the physical work. I didn't have to worry about things like if there was enough power available in our rack and I didn't have to deal with physical network cables and all the other…

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