[nickjj]

IMO comparing containers to an apartment is more accurate than a tent.

Because with an apartment each tenant gets to share certain infrastructure like heating and plumbing from the apartment building, just like containers get to the share things from the Linux host they run on. In the end both houses and apartments protect you from outside guests, just in their own way.

I went into this analogy in my Dive into Docker course. Here's a video link to this exact point: https://youtu.be/TvnZTi_gaNc?t=427, that video was recorded back in 2017 but it still applies today.