Docker Re-Imagines Server Virtualization [VIDEO] | Linux Today

Docker Re-Imagines Server Virtualization [VIDEO]

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Sean Michael Kerner
May 9, 2014

Server virtualization for the last decade has been dominated by the concept of virtual machine hypervisors of the type used by VMware ESX and others. There is another form of virtualization known as container based virtualization that is now rising in popularity, thanks in no small part to the open-source Docker project and its commercial backer Docker Inc.

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Sean Michael Kerner

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