Is containerization better than virtualization and where does cloud services comes into picture

Question

 I am having a doubt regarding containerization and virtualization topic. The virtual machine is all about virtualization. Docker is completely different from virtualization technology. 

Is it the best way to manage container in our own data center?

Can anyone help me with this?

Thanks.

Answer 1

 Yeah, definitely docker containers are better as they are lightweight. And docker gives you an option of pushing your image to Docker hub and whenever you want you can pull your image from there. 

Also, it's your own choice to make your Docker registry as private or public. You can use Docker containers with Aws elastic beanstalk as well, which is used to automatically launch the environment and configures the AWS resources to run the code.

Sometimes it depends on the requirement of the application also. Suppose  you want to run an application that require all of the operating system’s resources and functionality, then for that it's better to use Virtual machines.

I hope the above information will resolve your query.