Containers vs. Hypervisors: Choosing the Best Virtualization Technology

“Choosing a virtualization solution isn’t always easy. The good
news is you have many choices to pick from. The bad news is, well,
pretty much the same thing. You’ll find tons of options for Linux,
most of which break down to hypervisor or container-based
virtualization. Not sure which is which? We’ll break it down.

“Unfortunately, the various vendors that offer virtualization
(say that five times fast) don’t always agree on terminology.
You’ll also find several different types of hypervisor
virtualization, depending on the solution and hardware that are
being used. For simplicity’s sake, I’m going to refer a bit broadly
to the different types of virtualization. For most types of
virtualization, I’ll refer to hypervisor virtualization. For
virtualization at the operating system level, I’ll refer to
container-based virtualization. Note also that I’m mainly looking
at server virtualization on commodity x86/x86-64 hardware here. The
options are even more diverse if you’re working with platforms like
IBM’s System z mainframes.”

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