From the course: Building a Home IT Lab
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Get started with Docker
From the course: Building a Home IT Lab
Get started with Docker
- [Instructor] Docker is a widely used solution for managing containers. The company which maintains Docker, which is also called Docker, provides a tool called Docker Desktop for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS. Docker Desktop allows us to interact with the Docker system and the Docker containers on a local machine. On Windows and Mac OS the Docker desktop software runs a Linux virtual machine where the Docker containers exist. Linux containers, after all, can only run on a Linux host, so that means that most of the time when we're working with Docker in production, we'll be running it on a Linux host, whether that's a bare-metal host or a virtual machine. Though Windows and Mac OS versions of Docker are useful for labs or developer workflows, but they usually won't be quite as performant as Docker running on a Linux host system. In a production scenario, we won't use Docker Desktop, but rather we'll either manually control Docker containers or use an orchestration or configuration…
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