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What's the actual difference between a container and a virtual machine? Let's say you've got one physical server that has 32 CPU cores and 512 gigs of RAM, and you want to rent it out to eight different people. You can't physically divide this physical machine into eight pieces. Instead, you can run a piece of software called a hypervisor that virtually divides the hardware of this machine and hands each person a virtual machine. Each of those eight virtual machines believes it's a real, separate computer and its own full operating system. But in reality, they're all sharing the same hardware. One physical server, eight virtual machines, with their own operating systems. Operating systems are heavy, and they take a lot of resources to run. So containers were created with the idea that two applications can share the same operating system. But each container can have a private slice of the operating system. Think of it like private rooms inside the operating system. Container 1 can't even see that Container 2 exists. In simple terms, A virtual machine gives each user a virtual computer with its own operating system, while a container gives each application an isolated environment that shares the host operating system.

What's the actual difference between a container and a virtual machine? Let's say you've got one physical server that has 32 CPU cores and 512 gigs of RAM, and…