> If you're running 20-30 containers on a beefy VM, you're not really condensing anything. You're just moving from running hundreds of small VMs on a single server to running much less larger VMs.
Of course you are condensing. Those small VMs would have been running a full OS runtime each.
Assuming you relocate those workloads onto a single machine (1 process = 1 container), you no longer run 20-30 copies of an OS, just a single one.
And the container engine takes the place of the hypervisor.
Of course you are condensing. Those small VMs would have been running a full OS runtime each.
Assuming you relocate those workloads onto a single machine (1 process = 1 container), you no longer run 20-30 copies of an OS, just a single one.
And the container engine takes the place of the hypervisor.