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Docker containers

When we talk about containers in the Docker world, we are technically talking about Linux containers. As stated by Red Hat on their website (https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/containers/whats-a-linux-container):

A Linux container is a set of processes that are isolated from the rest of the system, running from a distinct image that provides all files necessary to support the processes. By providing an image that contains all of an application’s dependencies, it is portable and consistent as it moves from development to testing, and finally to production.

Though the concept is not new, Docker makes it possible to create containers that are easy to build, deploy, version, and share. A Docker container only contains dependencies ...