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Understand container architecture

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Understand container architecture

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- [Instructor] If you're going to be using containers, it's important to understand the architecture of containers. So if we start off with a server, and that server could be a physical server, like a desktop or laptop or server in the data center. Or it could be a virtual server, like a virtual machine running on any one of those types of physical servers that I just mentioned. On top of that server, we installed the Windows Server 2019 operating system. From there, we're going to install the Docker Engine and you'll see how to do that in just a moment. After that, we can run containers on top of the Docker Engine. But we can't actually start or run those containers from the Docker Engine on the Windows Server. We have to use the Docker client, which is a separate piece of software that's also installed on the local Windows Server. So the Docker client communicates with the Docker Engine through an API. And typically, you have an external device of some kind, maybe it's a laptop, and…

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