How Docker Changed The Virtualization Technology?
Virtualization
means to install Guest operating system over the Host operating system with
help of different tools like Virtualbox or VMware or KVM or Ovirt etc. With
help of these tools, we can install any Operating system over another Operating
system and start work on that whether we can use those as other Nodes for the
practice of DevOps tools or other work.
Let’s
take a look at how Cloud companies are providing the Virtual machines, These
companies install the number of virtual machines on Host OS. But the question
is how these virtual machines are separated from each other in terms of VCPUs,
RAM or other hardware resources etc. it means each machine has how many CPUs or
how much RAM it has. For that, Hypervisor introduced, Hypervisor is a
virtualization technique, computer software, firmware that creates and runs
virtual machines. It is a kind of virtual machine monitor. Its main job is to
cater to the needs of the guest operating systems and effectively manage in such
a way so instances of multiple operating systems do not interrupt one another.
But
if we look in another way, let’s assume that we have requirements to run
different web apps on different platforms for that we need to create different
virtual machines with different hardware resources like CPUs, RAM for different
VMS etc & we need to install different libraries, packages for those. But
wherever it will gonna cost us in terms of virtual machines, Hardware
resources.
On
the other hand, Docker made this easy. Docker is a container/virtual technology
for Linux that allows a developer to package an application with all of the
parts it needs. It performs operating-system-level virtualization. We can run
different web apps through Docker.
Now
the question is how we install our web apps and how they will be separated from
each other in terms of resources?
The
answer is containers. Docker runs software packages called containers.
Containers are isolated like Shipping containers. These are virtualized
abstract objects. They separate the packages, libraries, tools and
configurations files. They also communicate with each other through the
well-defined channels. Containers are lightweight because they share the
machine’s OS system kernel and therefore do not require an OS per application,
driving higher server efficiencies and reducing server and licensing costs.
Because of lightweight containers, we can run a thousand of containers in the
single hosted machine.
Now
the question is how containers create: For containers, we need to create images
of apps packages lets say if we need containers of one WordPress web
application for that we need to create the following images
- Mysql
- WordPress
And
we will link both containers with help of Docker compose.
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