Microservices and #Containers | @CloudExpo [#DevOps #Microservices]

The concept and subsequent adoption of 'Containerization'' is growing at a rapid speed with the support of almost every other major player in the industry. This concept is much more efficient than the Virtualization which has been a major option for Infrastructure optimization in the past decade. The following factors distinguish a Container from a Virtual Machine. Containers contain Only the Application Specific libraries and binaries. They do not include a guest operating system. Rather all the operating system requirements are derived from the host computer in which the container is placed. This makes the container a really light weight super process within the host operating system. This makes the portability of containers across environments much more easier.

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