Docker Overview

Are you a techie? Of course you are if you’re here, reading this blog. So you must’ve at least heard of Docker: a helpful tool for packing, shipping, and running applications within “containers.”
Regardless of whether you have a use-case ready in mind for Docker or not, it’s still important to understand some of the fundamental concepts of what a “container” is and how it is compared to a Virtual Machine (VM). While the Internet is full of excellent usage guides for Docker, I couldn’t find many beginner-friendly conceptual guides, so let’s begin..

Don’t know what a Docker is?

Docker is a computer program that performs OS-level virtualization, also called “containerization”.
It is a tool that reduces the complexity of the communication that is required between teams while deploying software in the production. As a developer, we can build various containers which can have different applications installed onto them. We can give it to the Testing team and they will only need to run a container to replicate the development environment. How does it help? It helps in such a way that there is no need to install all dependency softwares and applications by the Testing team to test code and so, it will save a lot of time and effort.

Read more: https://tudip.com/blog-post/docker-overview/