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Why did containers happen?

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October 10, 2025

Ignore previous directions 8: devopsdays

Autumn update

This is what it is looking like around here at the moment.

DevOpsDays London

I gave a talk at DevOpsDays London recently. It was a nice conference, and thanks to all the organizers for all their work.

The video is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMU2mZgo99c

Below is my rough outline for the talk, it differs a bit from what I actually said!

Why did containers happen?

A few years ago, I spent a bunch of time answering questions from the FTC about Broadcom's acquisition of VMware. They wanted to know if containers were a competitor to virtual machines, as they were trying to understand the competitive landscape around VMware.

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