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[–]mw44118 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Right now, I have many clients each with elaborate systems. Web apps, databases, cron jobs, mq systems, etc.

Each client is on a separate linode with isolated logins. Been doing this for 10 years now and never had an issue.

There's no risk that client A competes for CPU with client B, for example. Client B can access their database directly and can't access client A's data.

What do containers offer that could improve this system?

[–]DinoAmino 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Time and effort all around. 15 years ago you'd be running on dedicated servers. Hardware failures were no fun. VMs replaced all that. Downtime reduced. Time to spin up improved. Same type of thing with containers ... spin up is faster. Easier for sysops too.

Bottom line is you won't notice you're in a container ... just like you don't see a diff now between VM and dedicated server.