Month: February 2016

Containers, VMs and unikernels

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Last week I had an interesting discussion with a colleague on containers (Docker mostly), VMs, as well as a more recent development in this space called unikernels. Regular geek speak. I’ve mashed up the most interesting parts of the discussion, together with some background information.

 

Containerization

Containerization is lightweight OS virtualization that groups and isolates certain processes and resources from the host operating system and other containers. Containers share the operating system kernel and may share binaries and libraries.

The following image depicts the difference between VMs and containers.
VMs versus containers

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NLVMUG 2016 sessions

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This March the 17th, the annual NLVMUG UserCon will be held in ‘s-Hertogenbosch. Last year an amazing turnout  of 900+ attendees was reached! It turned out to be one of the largest VMUG world wide. Let’s top that this year!

Make sure you don’t miss out and register here!

NLVMUG

It’s gonna be a full agenda with around 23 sessions divided between VMware, sponsor and community speakers. Next to that there’s  also the boot-camps and 2 keynotes. Speaking at keynote 1 will be VMware’s own Kit Colbert! You can use the breaks to have a look at all the stands. Be sure to talk to as much interesting vendors as possible. Hear them out on what they could bring to your IT challenges.

It will be an action packed day. One could say the NLVMUG is starting to look like, a sort-off, mini VMworld.

Rutger and myself will be there, presenting in our own VMUG community sessions. Check out our time slots:
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