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Docker's great and all, but I prefer the workflow of interacting with VMs |
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This is a blog-post-version of a talk I presented at both Ubuntu Summit 2022 and
SouthEast LinuxFest 2023. The first was not recorded, but the second was and is
on SELF's PeerTube instance. I apologise for the terrible, but
there's unfortunately nothing I can do about that.
The benefits of VMs and containers
- Isolation: we don't want an attacker to get into our webserver and be able
to gain access to our email server
- Flexibility: VMs and containers only
use the resources they've been given
- Portability: once set up and configured, VMs and containers can mostly be
treated as black boxes; as long as the surrounding environment is similar to
the previous in terms of communication, they can just be picked up and dropped
on bare metal servers as necessary.
- Density:
- Cleanliness: