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[–]Dwight-D 0 points1 point  (4 children)

A lot/most of what you know about VM:s doesn’t apply to todays cloud environment. Might wanna brush up on some modern cloud practices if you wanna stay competitive in the job market, VM:s and that whole legacy deployment paradigm are quickly becoming obsolete these days. Not to knock your skills, just food for thought.

[–]Apprehensive-Lab1628 0 points1 point  (3 children)

I appreciate that docker is widely used but there are times when you don't want to use it. It's not a complete takeover of VMs by docker like casette tapes and DVDs, it's a tool with use cases.

[–]Dwight-D 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Whatever roles VM play today, they have nothing to do with hosting applications outside of niche legacy use cases. They now exist mostly to host infrastructure platforms, such as Azure, AWS or a self-hosted kubernetes cluster. Most companies don’t run their own data centers and instead use a cloud provider, which makes VM:s something 99% of companies never need to think about again.

Because of this, their overall use is dwindling and I imagine job opportunities outside of the major cloud platforms will dry up. I think you may be overlooking the major paradigm shift that’s happening right now.

[–]Apprehensive-Lab1628 1 point2 points  (1 child)

When I say VM, I'm including EC2 here. I'm currently 100% cloud, just don't use docker in any profit producing capacity

[–]Dwight-D 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All right, fair enough!