[parley]

It may very well go that way, but I think unikernels (like MirageOS (http://http://www.openmirage.org/) are very interesting as well. A paravirtualized unikernel should be able to carry less overhead than regular virtualized OSs and be able to operate completely in ring0/kernelspace.

Pair that with all the hw acceleration for virtualization available these days and you may get some pretty lean and fast virtualization that also more easily support hybrid deployments (Container software needs to be built for specific container host OSs and libs(depending on how much is bundled in each container)).

Also, the security implications of containers vs (para)-virtualization are different, so I think my personal jury's still out on that one too.

But I do agree that these are interesting times, for sure. And containers may win, I just don't think it's a done deal just yet. :)