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		staunch on Nov 15, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Run containers on bare metal already [video] Millions of Linux-based OpenVZ containers, across hundreds of hosting companies, have been deployed over the last 10 years. It's the only container technology that gained widespread adoption across the industry. Docker owes a lot of its success to the work the OpenVZ developers (and others) did. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenVZ

olefoo on Nov 15, 2015 [–]

Having worked with both technologies... ( and a few others including Freebsd jails, xen vms and zones on Solaris)

Docker is a distinct improvement on a couple of levels.

Quicker to launch if your imageset is local. More tractable command set. Relatively bandwidth efficient.

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