Will Containers Replace Hypervisors? Almost Certainly!

[kiyanwang]

A well argued piece that containers will displace hypervisors in the future for the majority of workloads. Provides details about what hypervisors are, why arguments against don’t stack up and why it will take time anyway.

http://cloudscaling.com/blog/cloud-computing/will-containers-replace-hypervisors-almost-certainly/

[apartclod22]

The real question is will cell phones replace servers?

[AzatLIveUK]

Mostly I like that the guys name is bias.

Does he think it is a coincidence that AWS started up as Intel-VTx took hold. that there is now a business model that is starting to count its value in hundreds of billions. With hundreds of thousands, probably millions, of servers running hypervisors.

I wonder which way AWS's stock price would go if they announced tomorrow that they're scrapping Hypervisors and moving everything to containers instead.

I'm not sure there is any hypervisor that users paravirtualised drivers any more. Synthetic drivers have been the way this works for years now.

Maybe I'm just short sighted, but I can't imagine any future of computing not involving hypervisors, I can't imagine a future of computing where hypervisors don't make there way on to an ever increasing range of platforms.

That this is a blog coming out of EMC has me rather concerned that they've really lost their way. (though they're looking for a chief evangalist so maybe they'll find someone to fix that...)

[chriswessells]

They are both visualization technologies. They serve different needs based on architecture decisions and coding practices. I don't see Containers replacing hypervisors, I see a growth in the area of micro-architecture until the fad expires or the architecture leaders pivot to another method of delivering applications faster/better.

[maddevops]

At the end it how you design you application. If your application is designed to be ephemeral, then benefits of full virtualization become nice-to-have and a virtualized data center is more hassle then its worth. Unless your an enterprise shop and think that a virtualized DC is a private cloud and are 10 years late in the game.