This is quite a good article explaining the nature of virtualization, describing why the virtual machine is undesirable in a production environment, and offering the alternative of 'containers', which do not virtualize entire operating systems, but instead provide a consistent and semantically rich interface to the operating system. "While a VM provides a virtual hardware interface that can run an operating system, a container offers a virtual operating system interface that can run applications."
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