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Basic Concepts — Images and Containers

Explore the core concepts of Docker images and containers to understand how isolation and resource efficiency improve Rails app development. Learn how images serve as templates for containers, enabling scalable and portable environments. This lesson builds the foundation needed to work confidently with Docker in your Rails projects.

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What is a container?

A container is an isolated or sandboxed execution environment for executing software. Containers rely on virtualization features built into the Linux kernel, which creates a fully isolated set of processes that do not know about the rest of ...