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.