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Creating Alpine Linux VM on VirtualBox

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Introduction Alpine Linux is a Linux distribution designed for security, simplicity and resource efficiency. It is also small (around 4MB w/o GUI) and is designed to run directly from RAM. Alpine Linux is a good choice for creating Docker containers or to deploy applications in the cloud. Alpine Linux does… Read more »

How to create Linux containers

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Linux containers isolate applications from the host system that they run on and from other containers. Containers behave much like virtual machines, but unlike virtual machines, containers include only the software components they need to operate rather than an entire operating system. This improves performance and reduces the size of… Read more »