January 2017
Intermediate to advanced
284 pages
6h 8m
English
One of the benefits of running services with Docker is that the server distribution no longer matters. If your application needs CentOS tools, it can run in a container based on CentOS. The same is true for Ubuntu. In fact, services running in containers based on different distributions can run side-by-side without issue. This has led to a push for very thin, Docker-specific distributions.
These distributions have one purpose: to run Docker containers. As such, they are very small and very limited in what comes out of the box. This a huge benefit to cloud wranglers everywhere. Fewer tools mean fewer updates and more uptime. It also means that the host OS has a much smaller attack surface, giving you greater ...
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