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Docker overview

What is a container?

Docker Overview

• Docker is an open platform for developing, shipping, and running applications.
• Docker enables you to separate your applications from your infrastructure so you can deliver software quickly.
• With Docker, you can manage your infrastructure in the same ways you manage your applications.

The Docker platform

Docker provides the ability to package and run an application in a loosely isolated environment called a container. Containers are lightweight and contain everything needed to run the application. You can easily share containers while you work, and be sure that everyone you share with gets the same container that works in the same way.

Docker provides tooling and a platform to manage the lifecycle of your containers:

• Develop your application and its supporting components using containers.
• When you’re ready, deploy your application into your production environment, as a container.
• This works the same whether your production environment is a local data center, a cloud provider, or a hybrid of the two.

Containers

• A container is an isolated environment for your code.
• This means that a container has no knowledge of your operating system, or your files.
• It runs on the environment provided to you by Docker Desktop.
• This is why a container usually has everything that your code needs in order to run, down to a base operating system

What can I use Docker for?