One of the features that comes with Kubernetes is its ability to scale horizontally services running on it and use available resources more efficiently. I’ve been hearing that containers are just lightweight virtualization (which is not true) so you can put more apps on the same resources. I can agree that it’s partially true Continue reading
Myths around containers. Part 3: Speed
Containers are considerably faster than virtual machines – at least that’s what most people say. But do they actually bring more speed to overall development and deployment process? Let’s find out in the third part of my article series.
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Myths around containers. Part 2: Portability
Is it true that after so many years we finally have real, portable format for all applications? It seems that we’ve come very close to that goal and it’s time to find out more about portability that comes with container revolution.
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Myths around containers. Part 1: Security
We had many revolutions in IT infrastructure world over past 20 years or so. Virtualization promised hardware abstraction, private cloud promised lower costs and flexibility and containers keep adding more to that pile creating a vision of perfect world.Continue reading