Technical requirements

This book teaches you how to use software containers to improve your application’s development. The labs for this chapter can be found at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Docker-for-Developers-Handbook/tree/main/Chapter4. Here, you will find some extended explanations that have been omitted in this chapter’s content to make it easier to follow. The Code In Action video for this chapter can be found at https://packt.link/JdOIY.

Let’s begin this chapter by introducing the most important Docker container objects.