Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Virtual machines were the cock of the walk fifteen years ago, but they have fallen out of favor ...

If you haven’t been paying a lot of attention, you might have missed the rise of a new form of virtualization, based at the operating system level, called “containers.” While there are many specific ...

When it comes to a virtual system, developers want one that’s able to assist their needs the most. Find out which one is better for you in today’s Docker vs Vagrant guide. Docker is a tool that’s made ...

This excerpt is from the book, Practical Virtualization Solutions: Virtualization from the Trenches published by Prentice Hall Professional, Oct. 2009, ISBN ...

Containers represent an operating system-level virtualization approach that’s popular on higher-end operating systems like Linux and Microsoft Windows. Linux containers, which come in numerous ...