Linux, of course, has long had hypervisors such as its built-in KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) and Xen but containers take a different approach to virtualization. In traditional hypervisors, the entire ...

Docker is a software platform for building applications based on containers—small and lightweight execution environments that make shared use of the operating system kernel but otherwise run in ...

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Learn how docker commit captures changes in a running container, make it persistent and create new images without altering ...

Docker Windows Server containers let you run programs on Windows in a lightweight and isolated environment. They work like small packages that include everything a program needs to run, such as the ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. A container is a collection of one or more processes, organized under a single name and ...

Five years ago, Solomon Hykes helped found a business, Docker, which sought to make containers easy to use. With the release of Docker 1.0 in June 2014, the buzz became a roar. And, over the years, it ...

Docker containers help software developers build applications more quickly and deploy them more flexibly. Containers can also help developers make software more secure. Automatic analysis of the ...

If you have a need to quickly deploy a MySQL server, Jack Wallen shows you how, with the help of Docker. Many web applications and services depend upon databases. Chances are, your business depends on ...

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