From the course: DevOps Foundations: Your First Project
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Installing Docker
From the course: DevOps Foundations: Your First Project
Installing Docker
- [Instructor] To get started on our journey, we're going to install Docker. Docker is a platform for running applications and their dependencies in isolated environments called containers, on nearly any operating system. With Docker, you don't have to think about what kind of machine your application will run on or whether the machine you're running it on has the right libraries installed in it. Everything that the application requires is packaged into the container and the application will start, run and behave the same way on any system that supports the docker demon. Additionally and unlike virtual machines, containers are much lighter, start faster and are easier to distribute and modify, because docker containers virtualize the operating system kernel not actual hardware. This is going to help us in our journey towards diversifying our app for three reasons. First, because applications in docker containers behave the…
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