Except when you need snapshotting, live-migration, or have a highly disparate set of underlying OS requirements.
The author of the article explicitly says, "This isn't to say that they're going to replace virtual machines." and I agree - there's no point in pretending like they're solving all of the same problems. I guess you could say that containers are an optimization of some use cases of VMs.
The author of the article explicitly says, "This isn't to say that they're going to replace virtual machines." and I agree - there's no point in pretending like they're solving all of the same problems. I guess you could say that containers are an optimization of some use cases of VMs.