One of the most interesting terms in virtualization that is appeared recently is containers. The containers offering a new layer of virtualization that are fit for packaging application. This type of virtualization allows to quickly build and deploy a large number of hosts or containers in a very short time and saves lots of time and money as compared to installing and deploying physical servers.

Virtual machine ( VM )  have been around for a few years from now while containers are new as an alternative solution to VM. If you are familiar with containers and Docker platform, we want to talk about some basic distinction of VMs and containers. In the following, there are top five difference between VMs and Containers.