Summary and Quiz

Get a refresher on what you’ve learned in the Containers section, and take a short quiz to validate your knowledge.

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In this lesson, we’ll summarize what we’ve learned in this chapter and test our knowledge of the containers and AWS container orchestration services with a quiz.

Summary

In this chapter, we learned about containers and AWS container orchestration services. Here’s a summary of the key takeaways from this chapter:

  • Virtualization refers to the logical division of a physical machine into virtual machines (VM) such that each VM running has its own OS, required libraries, and the application. Virtualization has limits, as only a limited number of VMs can share a single physical machine due to a server’s processing and storage limitations.

  • These limitations lead us to Containerization, logically isolated spaces on physical machines that use the same operating system as the physical machine. Different software can be used to manage, develop, and maintain these containers, such as Docker, Portainer, etc.  ...