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Slow? What is slow. VMs start in 4 seconds. While a container might do it in 1 or less, 4 seconds isn't slow.

Resource consumption might be more, but it's not going to be dramatically more than a container. It's not like a container uses nothing, the management and resource constrainers take up resources too.

Containers simply solve nothing and aren't 'better' in general. Containerizing certain programs might be useful, but other than that they are being hyped by the 'shiny new thing' crowd more than it deserves. On top of that, the amount of people using it vs. the amount of people that actually need it is way more of an issue than a container vs. vm debate.