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> Doesn't docker spin up an entire vm for containers? (It generally does not. Instead it uses more lightweight isolation primtives. That has always been one of
by hobofan 7y ago
> Doesn't docker spin up an entire vm for containers?
(It generally does not. Instead it uses more lightweight isolation primtives. That has always been one of its main selling points.)
EDIT: see reply
> That does seem pretty heavy for a MBA of any generation?
It very much depends on what you are running inside the containers. I regularly have a dev environment with ~8 relatively lightweight containers running on my Early 2014 MBA without any problems.
- mikewhy 7y agoDocker for Mac very much uses a VM. It's as lightweight as it can be (using the OS-supplied hypervisor, not something third party), but still a VM.
- ecnahc515 7y agoThe context is on MacOS. Docker is a Linux technology, it runs Linux containers, thus it requires a Linux VM to run Docker on a Mac.