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Getting Started with Docker and AI - Second Edition
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Getting Started with Docker and AI - Second Edition

by Nigel Poulton
January 2025
Beginner to intermediate
122 pages
1h 50m
English
Packt Publishing
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1: Intro to containers

This chapter introduces the main Docker and container concepts and level-sets the central jargon.

Don’t worry if you find some of the concepts confusing, we’ll cover everything again in more detail later in the book.

I’ve divided the chapter into the following sections:

  • Why containers
  • Big picture view
  • Images
  • Containers
  • Registries
  • The Open Container Initiative (OCI)
  • Containers and virtual machines
  • Microservices
  • Linux and Windows containers
  • Containers and AI

Don’t run any of the example commands in this chapter. You’ll run plenty of commands in future chapters.

Why containers

Before we had containers, we built applications that worked on our laptops and in our development environments but often failed in production. The ...

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ISBN: 9781837022878