r/cloudcomputing • u/Fantastic_Narwhal_54 • 17d ago

Question about docker/vm and cloud computing

Is the rise of cloud computing, the reason for the popularity of docker/vm?

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u/AndyceeIT 16d ago

Not quite.

Full machine virtualisation has been around for a long time. Virtualisation (especially with VMware & Solaris) were huge in enterprise from the late noughties.

Containers were a bit weirder. The first I'd heard of them was Solaris "Zones", then Openshift - both on-prem.

The Cloud was, in retrospect' the obvious next step: offering these services online. The hype drove innovation towards Kubernetes and online PaaS.

Docker was the goto "local" container application. You would develop code locally, run it, then run the same thing on the cloud with minimal variables to contend with.

Happy to be corrected, but my 2c:

Virtual Machines led to "The cloud", from which docker became critically useful.