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I have been using Amazon Web Services and other cloud platforms for over a year now, and I never really felt that VMs were the bottleneck in any way. Can someon

by voidr 11y ago

I have been using Amazon Web Services and other cloud platforms for over a year now, and I never really felt that VMs were the bottleneck in any way. Can someone explain to me the advantage of containers here? I know that containers are faster because they don't virtualize the hardware, however it comes at the cost of security.

TheIronYuppie 11y ago
Disclaimer: I work at Google on Kubernetes & containers. I tried to address it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9570639 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9570639 But in summary, the basic thing that containerized software offers is inherent portability and simple composition. VMs aren't going anywhere; running a container on top of them just makes everything more powerful.