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more VMs (based on a user-specified template) along with networking and possible in-guest software customization ☞ Examples ☞ The classic "3 tier" web/app/DB topology ☞ Trying out new technologies (CoreOS and etcd cluster, Open vSwitch)
users ☞ Accelerating the creation of VM environments ☞ Automating software provisioning inside VM environments ☞ Providing a CLI for creating/destroying/accessing VM environments
comes with a provider for VirtualBox ☞ Provider for VMware desktop products (Fusion & Workstation) available for a fee ☞ Other providers available as open source projects ☞ See https://github.com/gosddc for examples
of as "lightweight virtualization" or "OS virtualization" ☞ Leverage features built into the Linux kernel (cgroups and namespaces) ☞ Linux containers have been around for a while, but weren't very easy to use