#Virtualization
2 posts
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Docker Basics #1: What Is a Container — VM vs. Docker Ecosystem
Why Docker — how containers differ from virtual machines, why Docker emerged, and a tour of the Docker ecosystem built around Engine, CLI, Compose, and Hub.
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Hardware Basics #7: Virtualization and Containers — How One Physical Server Becomes Many
How a hypervisor splits hardware, the difference in how virtual machines and containers share resources, and overcommit — the reason cloud performance becomes unpredictable. The principle by which one physical server becomes many.