Containerized desktop infrastructure (CDI) and it’s advantages over VDI

Containers has become a popular tehcnology due to it’s ligher weight and more agile way of handeling virturalization. Different than Virtual Desktop Infrastructures (VDI), containerization involves packaging an application and its dependencies into a single container while VDI is a digital replica of the physical machine.

Containerized Desktop has many benefits including increased efficiency, scalability, and portability

VDI vs CDI

The main differences between them are

VDI 

  • Virtualzes the underlying physical infrastructure
  • Some points of ingress and egress
  • Less flexible, migration brings challenges
  • Scalling can be costly

CDI 

  • Virtualizes the operation system
  • Safer
  • More flexible
  • Easily to scaled up or down.