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Containerization

Containerization

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Containerization

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- The newest type of virtualization that's becoming popular in our networks is known as container-based virtualization, also known as containerization. This type of virtualization is much more focused on servers instead of the end user, though. With this type of virtualization, the operating system kernel is shared across multiple virtual machines, but the user space for each virtual machine is uniquely created and managed. Containerization is a type of virtualization that's applied by a host operating system to provision an isolated execution environment for an application. Containerization is considered fairly secure, because it enforces resource segmentation and separation at the operating system level. Now, containerization is commonly used with Linux servers, and some examples of this container-based virtualization include things like Docker, Parallels Virtuozzo, and OpenVZ project. Now, what does containerization really look like? Well, you've a piece of hardware, and then on…

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