[icebraining]

Containers are just groups of processes, essentially a chroot that isn't limited to the filesystem; I find them much simpler than full VMs, which are overkill for a single server.

It's not like containers are new technology, even on Linux; we were using OpenVZ a decade ago. Now they're just integrated into the mainline.

[pjmlp]

Sure, after all I used HP-UX vaults back in the day, however in the context of Java and .NET application servers they hardly bring anything new.

And we can use native containers if we actually need them, so I see such tooling more as yet another consulting wave.