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Hands-On DevOps with Vagrant
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Hands-On DevOps with Vagrant

by Alex Braunton
October 2018
Beginner
232 pages
7h 52m
English
Packt Publishing
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Understanding Docker

You've probably heard of Docker—even if you've never used it. It's incredibly popular at the moment and is being used/adopted by many companies. Docker is a tool that allows you to manage your applications using a type of virtualization known as containerization. Applications are bundled into containers and can be hosted in the cloud or using your own hardware. There are various tools used to manage Docker containers such as Docker Swarm and Kubernetes.

Docker was released in March 2015 by Solomon Hykes. Its current release is 18.06.1 and it is written using the Go programming language. It can run on Windows, Linux, and macOS.

Docker belongs to the same virtualization family as Vagrant, VMWare, and VirtualBox. It also ...

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