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Getting Set Up with Docker

Jonathan Bartlett1  
(1)
Tulsa, OK, USA
 

Docker is a tool that allows you to run numerous containers on your system at the same time. A container is similar to a virtual machine running inside your computer, but without most of the overhead of a full virtual machine. Docker also allows you to quickly and easily download third-party machine images and run them locally on your computer. Even on a Mac or Windows computer, you can run Linux images from Docker. The only requirement is that since Docker is not a true virtual machine, your computer must ...

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