Learning Docker

Understanding the Docker setup

It's important to understand Docker's components and their versions, storage, execution drivers, file locations, and so on. Incidentally, the quest for understanding the Docker setup would also reveal whether the installation was successful or not. You can accomplish this by using two docker subcommands, namely docker version, and docker info.

Let's start our docker journey with the docker version subcommand, as shown here:

$ sudo docker version
Client version: 1.5.0
Client API version: 1.17
Go version (client): go1.4.1
Git commit (client): a8a31ef
OS/Arch (client): linux/amd64
Server version: 1.5.0
Server API version: 1.17
Go version (server): go1.4.1
Git commit (server): a8a31ef

Although the docker version subcommand ...