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Effective DevOps with AWS

You're reading from   Effective DevOps with AWS Ship faster, scale better, and deliver incredible productivity

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786466815
Length 402 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Nathaniel Felsen Nathaniel Felsen
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Dockerizing our helloworld application

Docker, and containers in general, are very powerful tools worth digging into. By combining resource isolation features, including union capable filesystems, Docker allows for the creation of packages called containers that include everything needed to run an application. Containers, like virtual machines, are self-contained, but instead of virtualizing the hardware, they virtualize the operating system itself. In practice, this makes a huge difference. As you have probably noticed by now, starting a virtual machine, such as an EC2 instance, takes time. This comes from the fact that, in order to start a virtual machine, the hypervisor (that's the name of the technology that creates and runs virtual machines) has to simulate all the motions involved in starting a physical server, loading an operating system, and finally, going through...

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