Low Startup Time
Because they are so lightweight, containers can often be spun up in a fraction of a second. By contrast, a virtual machine may take several minutes to start up. That means containers can be provisioned whenever needed to react to spikes in demand, and shut down when no longer required, allowing resources to be used more efficiently. Research shows that the average lifespan of a container is 2.5 days, compared to 15 days for a cloud-based virtual machine, suggesting that many companies use containers for dynamic workloads.
Micro-services
Many organizations are moving away from monolithic application design architectures to more modular micro-services architectures where applications are split up into different modules. Containerization is ideal for this type of architecture because each micro-service can be put into a container and fired up almost instantly when needed.
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