Container or VM? How to Choose the Right Option in 2023

2 years ago thenewstack.io

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A few years back, most technology articles would have you thinking that https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/containers/containers-vs-vms were diametrically opposed components in the data center. You may remember when JavaScript was going to take over the server side, or when virtual reality was going to revolutionize education. In truth, these technologies eventually found comfortable areas of use, rather than supplanting every other idea for themselves.

We’d like to provide a guide, now, to just when and where each technology is appropriate in today’s hybrid cloud environments.

There are other similar and competing technologies that have many of the same capabilities, such as unikernel, Wasm etc.

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