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Discussion on: Docker Containers Explained by Renting Office Space

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maxdevjs

Eye-opener article. As containers achieve better resource utilization than hypervisors, I wonder how much lighter can be a Container Engine compared to a Hypervisor. Any clue?

Also, you have a whole series of interesting articles. I have to bring popcorn :)

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Kevin Kononenko

I appreciate that Max! As for size, you can probably check out an engine like the Docker Engine to learn more, the "Community" edition can be downloaded for free here: hub.docker.com/editions/community/...

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maxdevjs

Thank you, checking it.

I searched for benchmarks and found that the performance of containers running on bare metal can in some cases be 25%-30% better compared to running the same workloads on VMs in both CPU and IO operations. Taking with a grain of salt the discrepancy among tests, there are indeed considerable advantages.