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Containers—Not Virtual Machines—Are the Future Cloud | Linux Journal
www.linuxjournal.com/content/containers%E2%80%94not-virtual-machines%E2%80%94are-future-cloud, posted 2013 by peter in linux opinion virtualization
Until recently it has been assumed that OS virtualization is the only path to provide appropriate isolation for applications running on a server. These assumptions are quickly becoming dated, thanks to recent underlying improvements to how the Linux kernel can now manage isolation between applications. § Containers now can be used as an alternative to OS-level virtualization to run multiple isolated systems on a single host. Containers within a single operating system are much more efficient, and because of this efficiency, they will underpin the future of the cloud infrastructure industry in place of VM architecture.