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Driving DevOps with Value Stream Management
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Both containers and hypervisors make applications faster, more portable, and more efficient to deploy. However, they achieve those objectives differently. You've already learned that hypervisor software implements a light OS over a host machine's environment. In contrast, a container's OS is smaller and more efficient than hypervisor software. Containers package an application and its dependencies and run them as an OS process on the host machine.
A container package can run anywhere a container engine is installed. For example, please refer to Figure 5.2 for a graphical depiction of the container-based architecture, and then compare it with the hypervisor virtualization architectures shown in the following figure:
Figure 5.3 – Container-based virtualization
At first glance, the container-based virtualization model looks relatively similar to the hosted hypervisor model. They both provide an abstraction...