Implementing Docker
Docker is one of the most popular containerization platforms, which constitutes the basic building block to run DevOps applications. Podman and BuildKit are other popular containerization platforms that are available as alternatives to Docker. In general, a containerization platform permits you to run a single application in an isolated environment. In Docker, this is achieved by wrapping your application in a Docker container, which contains your code, the operating system, and all required libraries used by your code. Within a Docker container, you can run a Docker image, which is the object in your filesystem that wraps your application.
As an alternative to Docker, you can use a virtual machine, which also provides an isolated environment and a ready-to-run code for your application. However, Docker is much smaller and easier to port than virtual machines.
As with any application, a Comet experiment can also be launched in a Docker container. In this section...