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Container Ship
Container-based virtualization solutions such as Docker have less hardware overhead and support higher densities than classical virtualization tools such as KVM [1] or Xen [2]. This increased efficiency, along with simpler management, explains the meteoric rise of Docker [3], LXD [4], OpenStack [5], and other container-based tools: Everything called a "container" is currently very popular, and no end is in sight for the hype (Figure 1).
Figure 1: Despite the hype surrounding the two components, Docker and OpenStack are still not a perfect couple, which is why other providers are sensing an opportunity. (Image from: blog.docker.com)
Developers are busily building a whole new fleet of solutions designed to support the container paradigm. Project Atomic [6] and CoreOS [7] [8]
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