What do you guys think of containers and traditional virtual machines ?

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Containers and Traditional virtual machines are similar but different. in virtual machines: Each application/service you want to run will have its own Operating system file and libraries. for example, you are on windows and you want to run a RED HAT linux service. so you install a whole RED HAT Linux VM (install the OS) then run your service. then if you want to also run another service on Kali Linux, you'll have to install the full Kali Linux VM in another virtual machine. this will create a lot of overhead. Containers, on the other hand, can share a common Guest Operating system. for similar services, so in the example above the kali service and RED Hat service will run in their separate containers, but they can share some common libraries. this is my tacky explanation. but if you read a bit about it, it gets a lot clearer. NOTE: all my knowledge of containers comes from docker.

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