Learning Docker

Preface

We have been fiddling with virtualization techniques and tools for quite a long time now in order to establish the much-demanded software portability. The inhibiting dependency factor between software and hardware needs to be decimated by leveraging virtualization, a kind of beneficial abstraction, through an additional layer of indirection. The idea is to run any software on any hardware. This is achieved by creating multiple virtual machines (VMs) out of a single physical server, with each VM having its own operating system (OS). Through this isolation, which is enacted through automated tools and controlled resource sharing, heterogeneous applications are accommodated in a physical machine.

With virtualization, IT infrastructures become ...