Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Virtual machines were the cock of the walk fifteen years ago, but they have fallen out of favor ...

Docker containers are lightweight, self-contained packages capable of efficiently running various services. Virtual machines are more robust, emulate full computers, and require more resources ...

Figure 1 illustrates the difference between a container and a virtual machine. Figure 1. Docker vs a virtual machine ...

Containers vs Docker images explained A container is a collection of one or more processes, organized under a single name and identifying ID that is isolated from the other processes running within a ...