VMs vs. Containers for Microservices
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What makes more sense for an enterprise?In my previous blog, I talked about how enterprises can achieve continuous delivery of applications using microservices and containers. Here, I delve deeper to compare containers and VMs from a microservices architecture viewpoint.In this software era of constant evolution, we hear a lot of talk about using containers for microservices and the need to modernize monolithic applications. But, there is always an impending question for an enterprise that arises next and is rarely addressed — Why not use VMs instead of containers?Virtual Machines offer virtualization of hardware as well as the OS and create an efficient, isolated duplicate of a real machine. In the case of containers, only the OS is virtualized and not the hardware, creating a (...)
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