How Docker Improves a DevOps Workflow

DevOps is a mindset, a culture, and a way of thinking. The ultimate goal is to always improve and automate processes as much as possible. In layman language, DevOps requires one to think in the laziest point of view, which puts most, if not all, processes as automatic as possible.

Docker is an open source containerization platform that improves the shipping process of a development life cycle. Note it is neither a replacement for the already existing platforms nor does the organization want it to be.

Docker abstracts the complexity of configuration management like Puppet. With this kind of setup, shell scripts become unnecessary. Docker can also be used on small or large deployments, from a hello world application ...

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