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Docker Basics
In this chapter, we introduce one of the building blocks of the DevOps toolkit – containers. We are going to explain the differences between virtualization and containers, and then present the advantages and disadvantages of both solutions. Additionally, we are going to present a way to choose between both solutions for a given workload.
The main topics covered in this chapter are as follows:
- Virtualization versus containerization
- Anatomy of Docker
- Docker commands
- Dockerfile
- Docker image registries
- Docker networking
Technical requirements
For this chapter, you will need a Linux system with an installed Docker Engine. We are not going to cover the installation steps here. Different Linux distributions provide Docker in different ...
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