What is Docker?
One major trending price of software is called Docker. It was released in 2013, and its aim is at isolating the application within a container by offering its own runtime environment, without having access to the server itself.
The aim of a container is to isolate the application from the operating system of the server.
Standard virtual machines can also accomplish this by running a guest operating system for the application. Inside of the virtual machine, all packages and runtimes can be installed to prepare it for your application. This solution comes with significant overhead, of course, because we are running a second operating system that's just for our application. It is not scalable when many services or multiple applications ...
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