With container-based development, deployment, and the whole ecosystem, following are the key concepts to understand the modern day containerization:.
- Container host: An operating system on a physical machine (bare metal), or a virtual machine configured with the container support.
- Container OS image: Containers are deployed from images in the form of layers as they stack up. The container OS image is the first layer in potentially many image layers for the given container. This image provides the basic required operating system environment for the desired application.
- Container image: A container image is primarily for the intended application, and it contains the base operating system, application, and all ...