In the last few years, one technology in particular has been making headlines on the net, on social networks, and at events—Docker.
Docker is a containerization tool, which became open source in 2013. It allows you to isolate an application from its host system so that the application becomes portable and code tested on a developer's workstation can be deployed to production with fewer concerns about execution runtime dependencies. We'll talk a little about application containerization.
A container is a system that embeds an application and its dependencies. Unlike a VM, a container contains only a light operating system with only the elements required for the OS, such as system libraries, binaries, and code dependencies.
To learn more about the differences between VMs and containers, and why containers will replace...