Virtualisation and containers

• Introduction to virtualization discusses and disambiguates between virtualization and containers

Virtualization

• VM tools overview gives more details about the virtual machines available in Ubuntu

We also give further details on some specific usage scenarios here:

• QEMU microvm

• Upgrading the machine type of your VM

Containers

• Container tools overview gives more details about the popular container technologies available in Ubuntu

There are more detailed discussions on specific technologies here:

• About rock images

• Docker storage, networking, and logging

Other virtualisation tools

• About OpenStack provides an introduction to OpenStack

• Introduction to eBPF discusses eBPF, which is a lightweight VM that runs in the kernel space

See also

• How-to: Virtualisation

• How-to: Containers