Now, let's discuss on a high level how a system that can run Docker containers is designed. The following diagram illustrates what a computer on which Docker has been installed looks like. By the way, a computer which has Docker installed is often called a Docker host, because it can run or host Docker containers:
High-level architecture diagram of the Docker engine
In the preceding diagram, we see three essential parts:
- On the bottom, we have the Linux operating system
- In the middle dark gray, we have the container runtime
- On the top, we have the Docker engine
Containers are only possible due to the fact that the ...
