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Container Fundamentals & Orchestration Concepts
What a container actually is versus a virtual machine, why Docker won, and why running containers at any real scale requires an orchestrator — the conceptual foundation before ECS or EKS make sense.
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🎓 Learning objectives
- •Explain the difference between a virtual machine and a container in terms of what's actually being virtualized
- •List the concrete limitations of VMs that containers solve, and the new problems containers introduce
- •Explain why a single 'docker run' command doesn't scale to production and what an orchestrator adds
- •Compare Docker Swarm, ECS, and Kubernetes at a conceptual level before choosing one
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