Dipartimento di Informatica

Speaker: Davide Neri

Abstract: Virtualization is used in data center and cloud environments to decouple applications from the hardware they run on. Hardware virtualization and operating system level virtualization are two prominent technologies that enable this. Containers, which use OS virtualization, have recently surged in interest and deployment. A notable example among the newly proposed OS virtualization technologies is Docker. Docker is a platform that allows to package any application, together with its dependencies, into isolated virtual containers. Docker containers are lightweight and portable, as they can be quickly deployed and executed on any host where Docker is installed.