Introduction to Docker
Linux Containers, as described before, provide a lightweight or stripped-down version of OS within the host OS. Applications can be installed on Linux Containers and can be ported to any host OS supporting Linux Containers. A user doesn't have to care about releasing different software for different target machines. Multiple Linux Containers can be created on a host OS, thus providing the capability to run multiple instances of software on the same machine independent of each other. Imagine software using a large number of ports and a tedious configuration file. In a traditional approach, the user has to carefully create the configuration file for each instance so that they don't conflict with another instance. In Linux ...
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