Key Aspects of Containers

  • Just as VMs are hardware level (server level) virtualization, containers are OS level virtualization.
  • VM – Primary Use Case – Multiple OSes can be supported on a single hypervisor (Virtualization Platform on hardware)
  • Container  – Primary Use Case – Multiple Apps to be supported on a single platform (Docker Engine)

Containers enable quick, agile development, since they are:

  1. Transitory
  2. Disposable
  3. Can live alongside persistent storage
  4. Can complement existing virtualization

Docker Orchestration

Additional tooling to coordinate containers across multiple machines is known as container orchestration.

  1. Marathon on Apache Mesos – first to support Docker orchestration (the gold standard for production clusters).
  2. Kubernetes 
  3. Docker Swarm (now part of Docker Engine)
  4. Nomad

Docker Tools

  • Docker hub for public storage of Docker images
  • Docker registry on-premise storage of Docker Images
  • Docker cloud  – a managed service for building and running containers
  • Docker datacenter –  a commercial offering embodying many Docker technologies

Docker Competitors

  • Kubernetes and Kubernetes Engine
  • Apache Mesos and Mesosphere
  • Cloud Foundry
  • Azure Container Services
  • Open Container Initiative (OCI)
  • CoreOS and rkt
  • Canonical and LXD

Anuj holds professional certifications in Google Cloud, AWS as well as certifications in Docker and App Performance Tools such as New Relic. He specializes in Cloud Security, Data Encryption and Container Technologies.

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