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Docker on Linux

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Docker on Linux

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- [Instructor] Containers offer a way of running an operating system in a controlled, confined space with much less overhead than a traditional virtual machine would require. There are a handful of technologies we can use to run containers on Linux, including Lexi and Docker. I'd like to spend a few minutes for this episode covering the basics of Docker on Linux. The container starts out with an image file representing the operating system that will run inside the container. This image contains most of an operating system. Most notably, the operating system in the image doesn't include a kernel. Containers use the host system's kernel and that means that containers on Linux can only be Linux containers, though we can run different distributions inside of containers. And for this reason, many popular containers are based on Alpine Linux, a very minimal distro that's well-suited to providing just the essentials and…

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