What Are Containers?

In this lightboard lesson, Jason covers the very basics of container technology with a comparison to hypervisors and virtual machines.

[mainframe]

One of the best breakdowns of VM vs Container I have seen on YT. Thank you! As I always say if you can't break it down to a 5 year old then you don't know it well enough :)

[mohanv]

Thank you for creating this simple and yet precise explanation. Drives home the point succinctly.

[paulostefani]

Definitely the most understanding video about container! Thanks.

[JeffReeves]

My goodness, why are you the first person to concisely describe the difference between VMs and containers?

Of all the lectures, conferences, and tutorials I've seen, I either get a complete deep dive of how containers came to be, or I get "it's basically magic but it does cool stuff".

[CougarPrince]

The comparison of containers and VM is brilliantly understood. Very clear information, in particular how they can work together as well. Awesome. Thank you!

[nikitabobyshew]

Thanks! The best explanation I've seen so far

[richardada]

You are really the best!!!
The explanations from you is better that from Microsoft :(

[heenashaikh]

Excellent!!! Very well explained; in fact the best so far amongst all the other videos explaining containers.

[joperez]

Definitely subscribing!!! Thank you. You're good at explaining.

[mariasoosai]

Simple explanation to a complex topic!

[toniav]

You are absolutely the best . You explained it so well !

[amithirani]

Great Video!! Very easy explanation with the foundational concepts.

[bluesdog]

This is awesome, think I'm finally grasping this stuff, thanks!

[rosannesinatra]

EXCELLENT job! You just taught me what containers are :)

[mike]

Excellent video, excellent content. Well done.

[an]

very simple and sweet explanation, great work.

[mywaymars]

Great video. Very useful and easy to understand. Gracias!

[snedunuri]

Are the three apps that were (in the VM case) running on 3 different O/S's now required to all be ported to one OS or does the container runtime provide that abstraction so each app can continue to assume its talking to Windows/BSD/Linux?

[lucluc]

You typically run a full OS on your host, e.g. Ubuntu and a lightweight Linux distro inside each container, e.g. Alpine. Would you call Alpine a Guest OS in that case or what's the right terminology?

[pacianmatulac]

What is the average lifespan of container?