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Docker is a containerization platform that packages your application and all its dependencies together in the form of a docker container. This ensures that our application works seamlessly in any environment.
What are Containers?
A container is a standard unit of software. A Docker container image is a lightweight standalone, executable package of software that included everything needed to run an application: code, runtime, system tools, system libraries, and settings.
Containers vs. Virtual Machines
Containers and Virtual Machines are closely related. As the purpose they serve is pretty much the same. A major difference can be made out from the below image:
From the figure, if we see the docker always runs on the top of the host operating system. The container has the libraries, binary files, and application itself and it doesn't have individual operating systems.
Virtual machines are running on a separate operating system and each VM has its own libraries, binary files, and applications. Due to the included Guest OS, it makes the virtual…
