After hearing about this and Docker, I'm interested in learning more about containers from a high level point of view. What are they used for, beyond very slim VMs? What direction is the technology heading?
Consider it very fine-grained resource control: You can restrict exactly what memory, cpu, process visibility, network access etc. a process, or group of processes can have.
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After hearing about this and Docker, I'm interested in learning more about containers from a high level point of view. What are they used for, beyond very slim VMs? What direction is the technology heading?
Hey Tom, here's a high-level overview of containers in general (and docker in particular): http://www.docker.io/learn_more
Consider it very fine-grained resource control: You can restrict exactly what memory, cpu, process visibility, network access etc. a process, or group of processes can have.
So you have a base set necessary for an OS of some sort, then match and choose whatever you want?