10 CONTAINERIZATION WITH DOCKER
Professional full-stack developers frequently work with Docker and, more broadly, containers. Docker, an open source containerization platform, solves three common problems.
First, it lets us run a particular version of some software, such as Node.js, for each of our projects. Second, it decouples the development environment from our local machine and creates a reproducible way to run the application. Third, unlike traditional virtual machines, Docker containers run on a shared host. Therefore, they are smaller in size and consume less memory than classic virtual machines, which emulate a complete system and ...
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