Learn to Program with Assembly: Foundational Learning for New Programmers

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J. BartlettLearn to Program with Assemblyhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7437-8_20

Getting Set Up with Docker

Jonathan Bartlett¹  

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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 ...