Posts tagged with "virtual machines"

Why docker is great

Posted: 12:15am 8th May 2015

A technology I've been evaluating and testing lately is Docker. It uses Linux container (LXC) technology to provide essentially a native speed linux virtual machine which can be configured via script files (Dockerfiles) and provides a public registry of built-images. The concept is similar to using a virtual machine configured via text files such as vagrant or something similar, except the big bonus is speed, since the native LXC container technology allows direct hardware access on Linux.