Containers vs. VMs: What are the differences?
- virtualgendham
- Mar 7, 2022
- 1 min read
How virtual machines (VMs) are different from containers.
Virtual Machine: A VM is an emulation of a physical computer. VMs enable to run multiple operating systems on a single computer. VMs interact with physical computers by using lightweight software layers called hypervisors. Hypervisors can separate VMs from one another and allocate processors, memory, and storage among them.
Container: A container is a standard unit of software that packages up code and all its dependencies so the application runs quickly and reliably from one computing environment to another.
It's a lighter-weight and runs natively on the OS, faster resource provisioning and speedier availability of applications.
Containerization packages together everything this enables applications to run almost anywhere(Laptop/Desktop, IT Infrastructure and the cloud).
Containers vs. VirtualMachine
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