Chapter 13. Operating System-Level Virtualization

In this chapter, we will cover:

  • Installing and configuring Docker
  • Downloading an image and running a container
  • Creating your own images from Dockerfiles and uploading to Docker Hub
  • Setting up and working with a private Docker registry

Introduction

This chapter is a collection of recipes that provides the essential steps to install, configure, and work with Docker, which is an open platform to build, ship, share, and run distributed applications through operating-system-level virtualization, a technology that has been around for many years in the Linux world and can provide speed and efficiency advantages over traditional virtualization technologies.

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