Docker
Explore Docker's role in democratizing Linux container technology by providing accessible tools like CLI and API. Understand the different Docker environments for macOS, Windows, and Linux, and how containers rely on virtual machines for cross-platform compatibility. This lesson equips you to manage and run containers efficiently to enhance your DevOps workflows.
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As we’ve discussed, the low-level container capabilities of Linux were available but required highly specialized expertise to use. A team at a company called dotCloud started an internal, proprietary project to wrap these low-level features with a more accessible toolset. That team released Docker as open source in March 2013, then started Docker, Inc. to continue its development.
Docker was developed to democratize the container features of Linux, providing a high-level command-line interface (CLI) and application programming interface (API) to define, run, and manage containers. The CLI and API provide tools to run and manage containers without the need to know the detailed inner workings of the Linux kernel extensions ...