What is Docker?
Explore the concept of containers and the role of Docker as a software platform for packaging applications. Understand the advantages of Docker such as portability, scalability, and security, and how it can ensure your Django applications run reliably across different environments.
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Before defining what Docker is, we must understand what a container is and its importance in today’s tech ecosystem.
What is a container?
To make it simple, a container is a standard unit of software that packages up the software and all of its required dependencies so that the software or the application can run quickly and reliably from one machine to another, whether the environment or the OS.
An interesting definition from Solomon Hykes at the 2013 PyCon talk is ...