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Docker is a set of platform as a service (PaaS) products that use OS-level virtualization to deliver software in packages called containers. [5] The service has both free and premium tiers. The software that hosts the containers is called Docker Engine. [6] It was first released in 2013 and is developed by Docker, Inc. [7]
It is a container hypervisor providing an API to manage LXC containers. [14] The LXD project was started in 2015 and was sponsored from the start by Canonical Ltd. , the company behind Ubuntu . On 4 July 2023, the LinuxContainers project announced that Canonical had decided to take over the LXD project but a fork called Incus was made.
Docker, Inc. is an American technology company that develops productivity tools built around Docker, which automates the deployment of code inside software containers. [1] [2] Major commercial products of the company are Docker Hub, a central repository of containers, and Docker Desktop, a GUI application for Windows and Mac to manage containers.
Container Attached Storage is a type of data storage that emerged as Kubernetes gained prominence. The Container Attached Storage approach or pattern relies on Kubernetes itself for certain capabilities while delivering primarily block, file, object and interfaces to workloads running on Kubernetes. [66]
The Open Container Initiative (OCI) is a Linux Foundation project, started in June 2015 by Docker, CoreOS, and the maintainers of appc (short for "App Container") to design open standards for operating system-level virtualization ().
BOSH can be deployed as a BOSH release, which may create a “chicken or egg” surprise for newcomers. A BOSH server is not the only software that can deploy BOSH releases. There is a BOSH provisioner project that can deploy BOSH in a VM, a Docker container, or a bare metal server.
Various container software use Linux namespaces in combination with cgroups to isolate their processes, including Docker [17] and LXC. Other applications, such as Google Chrome make use of namespaces to isolate its own processes which are at risk from attack on the internet. [18] There is also an unshare wrapper in util-linux. An example of its ...
Docker (software), an open-source software project automating the deployment of applications inside software containers Docker, Inc. , the company promoting Docker software Dockers (brand) , a brand of men's clothing by Levi Strauss & Co.