Virtual Machines vs Containers - Which is right for you?

Virtual Machines and Containers are two ways that you can deploy multiple, isolated services on a single platform. We are all aware of the big names like Docker Container, VMWare, and VirtualBox, but do we know which one is appropriate for our organization's use case? Every project is different and you need to make sure you choose the right underlying technology for your services. In this video, Don will walk you through the pros and cons, provide examples, and side-by-side compare each platform's features and use cases.

Do you prefer Virtual Machines or Container? Which works right for your organization? Let us know in the comments below!

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[kso]

I could explain in a three paper paper how much I appreciate this video and the various reasons, but I'll just keep it to the fact that I spent the last hour and half watching YouTube videos on Containers vs VMs before coming across this one. You are a great teacher and thank you for the visuals and the real world comparisons with the car. Had to subscribe because of this one video. Thank you!

[Jennifer-fkxi]

Wow, this is the best comparison I have seen. The analogy of carpooling and car rental makes it so clear

[pedrojaviermunozgarcia]

The best explanation I've found about this topic!!

[shrutishovandas]

This video is so helpful and easy to understand

[badromadaugy]

By far the Best explanation I´ve found on youtube about containers, their purpose and benefits of using.

[mllenessmarie]

What a wonderful explanation! So clear and concise, straight to the point. Merci!

[ramanjaneyareddy]

Love this explanation, I was flattered in just first 2 min.. love this

[buffalodebill]

Maybe it's worth mentioning, that VMs also have the advantage of being able to share computing resources across multiple users (partial virtualization), which comes handy. More, with a good setup and on a good HW, you can have more virtual instances than physical HW could provide.

Both have their merits, of course.

Good & simple to understand video - thumbs up.

[samsh-qa]

Nice, I was going all over youtube trying to get a clear explanation on just containers, I'm trying to build my own virtualization homelab server and learn about the tech involved and I just couldn't figure out why I wouldn't just run a trimmed down version of a VM lol now I get it, thanks.

[Alphahydro]

This was spot on. With LXC, there’s an option to make the container unprivileged, so this will aid in isolating it from other containers from a security perspective.

[chriseaguilar]

Excellent video. Straight to the point and great visuals. Cheers.

[hunterherron]

Excellent breakdown! Definitely have a better understanding of these two concepts after watching.

[lohphat]

De-duplication of storage (i.e. on NetApp) and in RAM (VSphere) greatly reduce VM resource consumption. If all the VM templates are identical copies of the same OS, then they can even run in hardware under a single, shared read-only code block.

[scottgilsdorf]

Your "VS" discussion was very helpful for me to determine my route! Thanks enjoyed the video!

[CubeCraft]

Don is always the best at explaining things!

[knutblaise]

4:00 will you please explain how VMs can NOT run in any of the environments you listed? VMs should be able to run in all of those environments though you may need to convert the VM image to the destination hyper-visor format.

[thorhammer]

Unfortunately all the tutorial I saw about Docker/ Containers doesn't really show how the applications can be use in a container. It's all about creating an image and downloading them. Does anyone know any youtube that shows how application can be run in a container. Thanks.

[erottegmail]

Where can I find a full demo of a working virtual machine based on containers?

[coolhand]

You can also run a container platform in a VM. I think you missed the security aspect. But still a good video.

[kickstartnetworking]

Given the low prices of hardware and the fact that I can run multiples os such as windows server 2019/2022 windows 10/11 and Linux in my home pc, I'd rather virtualization and the full control that a virtual machine provides, what if you need ADDS or GPOs, what if you have an application that runs only in windows, will you implement both?, containers and virtualization?