Performance comparison between Linux containers and virtual machines
Ann Mary Joy · 2015
With the advent of cloud computing and virtualization, modern distributed applications run on virtualized environments for hardware resource utilization and flexibility of operations in an infrastructure. However, when it comes to virtualization, resource overhead is involved. Linux containers can be an alternative to traditional virtualization technologies because of its high resource utilization and less overhead. This paper provides a comparison between Linux containers and virtual machines in terms of performance and scalability.