The layers typically go: hardware > hypervisor instance (vm) > linux+distro > process. I think it's accurate to say that containers shuffle around those last tw

The layers typically go: hardware > hypervisor instance (vm) > linux+distro > process. I think it's accurate to say that containers shuffle around those last two so it looks more like: hw > vm > linux > distro+process. The complication is that the lone linux in the middle is still deployed with a distro, it's just that the distro part is abstracted away from the perspective of the container.