From the course: Windows Server 2019: Deploying Containers
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Containers vs. virtual machines - Windows Server Tutorial
From the course: Windows Server 2019: Deploying Containers
Containers vs. virtual machines
- [Instructor] Some of you watching this course may have heard of virtual machines. Virtual machines are used widely in production in data centers and also used for running other operating systems or testing on your local desktop or laptop computer. You may be wondering what's the difference between a virtual machine and a container? Some people have said that containers are going to replace virtual machines. Honestly, I don't see that being true, because there are very different use cases for each. Let's compare and contrast containers and virtual machines. If you start off with virtual machines on the right-hand side of the screen, let's say that we have three different applications that are virtualized in three different virtual machines. Each virtual machine, unlike a container, is going to have its own operating system that you have to install, license, and maintain. Each of those virtual machines will run on top of whatever hypervisor you choose to use. It could be VMware…
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Why run containers in Windows?2m 31s
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Windows and Docker, better together1m 39s
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Introduction to containers5m 13s
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Understand container architecture2m 55s
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Containers vs. virtual machines3m 39s
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Images vs. containers2m 4s
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Clusters, nodes, services, and stacks2m 29s
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