Moved from KVM/QEMM to Docker for all of my various needs server needs, i.e. plex, LAMP, etc. I have beefy server hardware; nonetheless, the overall performance improvement of containers vs. virtualization is astounding. Moreover the community support for Docker is such that the move was painless. There’s still a use case for vitalization; for example, Docker’s networking/VLAN configuration can get quite complex. But, after only a few hours of messing with Docker, it’s safe to say that I’m a HUGE fan.
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