The container-oriented approach has the following key concepts:
- Container Host: The Container Host is like an engine for containers and it can run multiple containers. And it can configure the virtual machine to host containers.
- Container: It is a runtime instance of an image.
- Container image: An application needs several resources to run, such as layered filesystems, OS, and configurations. The container image consists of everything an application requires. The container image is immutable in nature. It cannot change its state as it's deployed to different environments.
- Container OS image: The container OS image is created from several other container images to make up a container. It also ...
