Decoding the Digital Evolution: Virtual Machines vs Containers

Are you puzzled about the distinctions between Virtual Machines and Containers? This blog aims to demystify these concepts for you. Initially, deploying an application required dedicating a physical server to it, a costly and inefficient approach for scaling businesses. This article will guide you through how Virtual Machines and Containers have revolutionized this landscape, offering more scalable, efficient solutions.

Earlier one application runs on one Physical Server. Whenever we needed a any new application, we have to buy a new physical server for it. This was very costly for the respective enterprise to scale up their business. This was a huge problem for them.

Later, Virtual machines solved this problem. Via this, we can create lot of virtual machines/servers on the top of a physical server. Henceforth, we can run multiple applications on a single physical server. But it has also a drawback, And every VM will require it's own dedicated OS ,hardware, and resources. Most of the time the resources are not used efficiently In result virtual machine do waste their resources most of the time and ends up in doing heavy loss for the organization.

After that, container comes into picture. It is a very lightweight in nature and do not need a full-fledged OS. It contains a very base OS. In reality, container runs on top of a virtual machine. We can consider a container as a box where we can run our applications in an isolated environment. Here we do use resources in an efficient way which results in no wastage of resources.

In a nutshell, we can consider Virtual Machines as a advancement of Physical Server and containers as a advancement of virtual machines

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