Todd Zullinger <t...@pobox.com> wrote: > [-- text/plain, encoding quoted-printable, charset: us-ascii, 25 lines --] > > Chris Green wrote: > > I'm trying to get my mind round the various ways of wrapping/isolating > > collections of code and programs in Debian (well in any Linux I > > suppose) and I'm really not understanding them very well. When you go > > to the home of any particular one it seems to think you know what it > > is already and thus goes from there to tell you how to install it but > > doesn't really explain what it does. > > Containers are similar to virtual machines in effect. > Compared to full virtualization, they have much lower > overhead (which can be great) and much less isolation > between the host and container (which can be not so great). > > Since they don't run their own kernel, they don't boot, so > starting a container takes a trivial amount of time compared > to starting a virtual machine. > > Try either or both of these for more details: > > https://ubuntu.com/blog/what-are-linux-containers > https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/containers/whats-a-linux-container > Thanks, the Ubuntu blog in particular has given me a lot of help.
-- Chris Green ยท
