November 2018
Intermediate to advanced
390 pages
10h 8m
English
Managing dependencies and binaries across many applications and customers requires significant efforts. Having realized the need for a comprehensive-yet-compact mechanism for achieving system portability, the Docker people have combined some of the capabilities of Linux cgroups (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cgroups) and namespaces into a single and easy-to-use package so that applications can consistently run on any IT infrastructure (bare-metal servers and virtual machines) without any tweak and twist of application code. The resulting package is the Docker image (https://docs.docker.com/engine/docker-overview/), and the following benefits accrue from using out of this standardized ...
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