Docker! Looks cool,
01 Feb 2015 Cloud · Web-Development
I came across this term ‘docker’ while going through the project ‘Shogun-cloud’ and decided to google about it and learn what this does. Turns out it has made building, shipping and running distributed applications hassle free to a great extent. It is promising since it allows isolation of applications without the need of a different VM for each application. It is much more light-weight than a VM (anyone who has worked with a VM knows how heavy a VM can be). The analogy given by its founder, Solomon Hykes, is very apt. He explains it as a shipping container as used by shipping companies, which standardises the shipping across each transportation vehicle regardless of what’s inside. Many companies like eBay have already changed to docker.
I would highly recommend going through this short introductory video. It doesn’t involve a lot of technical terms but gives a fairly good idea about docker.
Will be posting more as I learn more about it.
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