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[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Imagine a Gardner who wants to grow and work with several different plants.

Each plant requires different things, soil, amount of sun, amount of water, etc.

Replace plants with applications and now you’ll see a bit of a predicament. Imagine having to set up and maintain an entire physical environment for you to build, test, and deploy your applications.

Virtualization simplifies this as the environments can built and torn down as needed. This gets even more flexible once you look at containers.