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 ...

Get The Complete Developer now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.