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Commoncentsinvestor, thanks for sharing that article. The article highlights a few concerns about virtualizing applications through containers:


1. Container Security. In a shared host environment, how do you ensure data remains confidential and secure? Is there container-level encryption? This question also applies to Glassware. When an application is containerized, the application shares certain components with the host OS. The container does not operate in isolation. Attacks against organizations are getting more sophisticated (constant news on Organizations X,Y, and Z being hacked). You better be able to secure your containers.


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Analyst Joerg Fritsch writes “In the majority of cases, Docker would be embedded on top of guest servers that are in turn on top of hypervisors, however, except for a further fortification of resource isolation, a little there is to be gained from the hypervisor that is being used underneath.

Totally true. At least for proof of concept environments, I think it would most likely be hosted in a VM. Organizations will then need to realize the performance and efficiency advantages of hosting this outside a VM (removing the hypervisor).