Container Bandwagon – Is The Future Of Virtual Machines In Danger?

SEATTLE - June 18, 2015 - PRLog -- Many of the companies are looking forward for the “container generation” and these include the hi-tech vendors like Amazon Web Services, Red Hat and IBM. Running the whole services on the top of the virtual machines would appear to be disgusting and it would involve many unwanted complications. But there arises a query: Would it mean that the era of virtual machines would be ending or would it lead to another technology break. Read on, if you really want to know.

Continuing with the generations..
Remember the times when the virtual machines replaced the physical machines; a heavy phase of disruption was being faced at that time. The concept of the physical nature gave way to the virtualization concept because it could perform well and the infrastructure costs also got reduced at a faster rate. The same trend is being witnessed here.

Understanding the real concept of containers

Let us see how the containers work; the applications or the processes can be easily separated by the containers. That means they run independently and act over the layer of Operating System (OS). This conveys the meaning that these types of systems do not necessarily require an OS for its real function to work, unlike in Virtual machines where the Oss are being sliced across multiple hosts. The cost-effectiveness factor would be supported to the greatest extent and complexity factor would also get reduced.  For those who are new to the topic of containers, the concept has been introduced long back in the Linux versions, but during the previous years, the opportunity of containers was identified and they have won the hearts and minds of many in the big data world.  The perfect systems on which they are being run are the bare-metal servers  (they are neither virtual machines nor hypervisors).

But some of the data analysts have other views:

“It is true that containers would replace multiple functions in the servers, but the VMs is not completely killed in the process. The latter can be used for some purposes and the containers can also be used for specific uses. It all depends on the scenario where the real work is being done. They would, in fact, work as powerful weapons for the cloud developers.”

It is also true that the management of the containers would be more difficult, when compared to virtual Machines (VMs).

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