Jason, containers, like Docker and kubernetes are designed to let you sandbox/isolate one application or one service... without having to also host an operating system for each container. Hypervisors like XEN are designed for operating systems, not single applications. Hope this helps Tomasz On Sat, 1 May 2021 at 18:58, Jason Long wrote: > Hello, > Why microservices use containers like Docker and not Hypervisors like Xen? > > Thanks. > > -- -- GPG key fingerprint: 07DF B95B DB58 57B6 9656 682E 830A D092 288E F017 GPG public key available on pgp(dot)net key server