June 2017
Intermediate to advanced
274 pages
7h 45m
English
A container is a piece of software in a complete filesystem. It contains everything that is needed to run: code, runtime, system tools, and system libraries--anything that can be installed on a server. This guarantees that the software will always run in the same way, regardless of its environment. Containers share their host operating system and kernel with other containers on the same host. The technology around containers is not new. It has been a part of the Linux ecosystem for a long time. Due to the recent microservice-based discussions around it, container technology came into the limelight again. Also, it is the technology on which Google, Amazon, and Netflix runs.
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