[ItalyPaleAle]

Speaking for myself, containers are started and destroyed faster. When using VMs, the tendency is to keep updating the software within the VM, making changes to their state, etc: this eventually leads to drifts. When using containers, if you need to make a change, you destroy the container and re-build it, and the state is always consistent with what you (and possibly your teammates) use

[Shicholas]

as an addition to do this, we've found it easier to spin up the same exact environment for CI/CD.