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Learning DevOps - Second Edition
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Learning DevOps - Second Edition

by Mikael Krief
March 2022
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
560 pages
10h 41m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 9: Containerizing Your Application with Docker

In the last few years, one technology in particular has been making headlines on the net, on social networks, and at events—Docker.

Docker is a containerization tool that became open source in 2013. It allows you to isolate an application from its host system so that the application becomes portable, and the code tested on a developer's workstation can be deployed to production without any concerns about execution runtime dependencies. We'll talk a little about application containerization in this chapter.

A container is a system that embeds an application and its dependencies. Unlike a virtual machine (VM), a container contains only a light operating system (OS) and the elements required ...

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