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Understanding containerization
From the course: CompTIA Cloud+ (CV0-004) Cert Prep
Understanding containerization
- Okay, containerization is the new kid on the block. We've had virtualization going back to the '90s. We actually had it in the '80s. We just didn't have machines powerful enough to effectively run it in the way that we use it today. There was some virtualization concepts that existed though in the old mainframes and super supercomputer world, but we didn't really see it on a large scale until the '90s when we got computers powerful enough as the Pentiums came along to run multiple instances of operating systems on a single computer. And then eventually people realized, well, you know, we don't really need to virtualize the whole thing. What if we have these safe spaces where applications can run and they can't change the whole operating system, but they can change settings in their safe space. We call that safe space a container, and that's what containerization is about. So, let's define containerization and we'll…
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