Demystifying Containers

Summary

This talk covers the following topics

• Why do we need containers?
• Alternatives of containers?
• How containers is superseding?
• Building blocks of container
• Applications of container technology
• Drawbacks of using containers

Key Insight

Why should we use any virtualization tool and why should we use containers instead of Virtual Machines and how Control Groups(cgroup) and Namespaces are the building blocks of Containers.

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