Docker

A new way of life

What is DOcker?

• Docker is an open platform for developers and sysadmins to build, ship, and run distributed applications.
• Developers can build any app in any language using any toolchain. “Dockerized” apps are completely portable and can run anywhere - colleagues’ OS X and Windows laptops, QA servers running Ubuntu in the cloud, and production data center VMs running Red Hat.
• Sysadmins use Docker to provide standardized environments for their development, QA, and production teams, reducing “works on my machine” finger-pointing.

It's Not a VM

Terminology

• Image
  • The static definition of a container
  • Analogous to the source code for an application.
• Container
  • The encapsulated running application
  • Analogous to a running application

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Some Reading

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