Launching a local environment
Wherever possible, I will try to ensure that the practical exercises in this book will be able to be run on a local machine such as your desktop or laptop. For the purposes of this book, I will assume that your local machine is running either a recent version OS X or an up-to-date Linux distribution and has a high enough specification to run the software mentioned in this chapter.
The two tools we will be using to launch our Docker instances will also run on Windows; therefore, it should be possible to follow the instructions within this, although you may have to refer the usage guides for any changes to the syntax.
Due to the way in which Docker is architected, a lot of the content of this book will have you running ...
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