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Docker containers and microservices

Docker containers and microservices

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Docker containers and microservices

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(tech music) - If you've been working in the technology industry for a while, especially over the last several years, you'll have no doubt heard about Docker containers, and you may well have heard of something called microservices. So if you're not really clear on what these are, then this is the lesson that's going to help you. And this lesson is just before we cover the Amazon Elastic Container Service. ECS is the AWS service that allows us to run Docker containers. So first off, let's look at what Docker containers are and what microservices architectures are, and I'm going to try and simplify as much as possible. So remember, we looked at server virtualization before. So with server virtualization, we've decoupled the virtual server instance from the underlying hardware, and that gives us some advantages. But there are some disadvantages to this model. Every virtual machine or every instance, actually needs an operating system. An operating systems use a lot of resources. So you…

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