Modern enterprise development
Conceptually, a container image can be thought of as a snapshot of a container's filesystem that can be stored on disk. The container filesystem is typically arranged in layers and every change gets carefully captured in a separate layer. This allows the container image to indicate from which parent image it is derived. The Docker images, being represented through a standardized and simplified format, can ultimately lead to the rapid and rewarding deployment and execution of software applications. Containers are portable. This means that building images once and running them everywhere is the crux of the portability goal. Containers can run on any hardware that runs the relevant operating system.
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