What is Docker ? its working mechanism, tools and components.

What is Docker?

Docker is a container in which the containers create, manage, deploy and visualize applications in the software environment. The implementation of these containers on the common operating system with the help of some allied tools. Docker container developed in 2013. 

Docker container is an independent, executable and lightweight container that facilitates to run an application. Its libraries, tools, components, and runtime make the execution of an application easy and efficient. It is also known as software space where the applications are tested and developed quickly. 

Cloud services manage container services and the life cycle of containers. The runtime mechanism of containers is controlled by container services. Container services help to speed up, automate, simplify the development of application and deployment lifecycle.

How does it work?

Docker creates, manages, and operates containers. The operating system provides access to container technology: A container contains all of the libraries, configuration files, dependencies, and other components and parameters required for the application service or function to work. One underlying operating system is shared by all containers. Containers that travel between Docker environments with the same OS run without changes since Docker images contain all of the dependencies needed to execute code within a container.

To run several containers on the same OS, Docker leverages resource isolation in the OS kernel. Virtual machines (VMs), on the other hand, enclose a whole operating system with executable code on top of an abstraction layer of physical hardware resources.

Docker was originally designed to run on Linux, but it has now expanded to include support for non-Linux operating systems such as Microsoft Windows and Apple OS X. There are Docker versions for Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure.

Docker tools and components 

• Docker Community Edition is free and open source, but Docker Enterprise Edition is a for-profit offering from Docker Inc. Docker is a collection of components and tools for building, testing, and managing containers.
• The Docker Engine is the underlying technology that manages the activities and workflows associated with developing container-based applications. The engine provides a daemon process that hosts images, containers, networks, and storage volumes on the server side. Users can interact with the daemon via the Docker application programming interface via a client-side command-line interface (CLI). Docker files are the names for the containers generated by Docker. Docker Compose files specify how a Docker container's components are put together.
• Docker Hub is a software-as-a-service technology that allows users to publish and distribute container-based programmes via a central repository. More than 100,000 publicly accessible apps, as well as public and private container registries, are available through the service.

Trusted Registry, like Hub, is a repository that provides an additional layer of control and ownership over container image storage and delivery.

• Docker Engine's swarm mode allows cluster load balancing for Docker. Numerous Docker host resources are pooled together to act as if they were one, allowing customers to scale up container deployments to multiple hosts fast.

The Universal Control Plane is a unified cluster and application administration interface that is accessible over the web.

Compose is a command-line utility for configuring multi-container application services, viewing container statuses, streaming log output, and running single-instance processes.

Content Trust is a security solution that uses user signatures and image metadata to validate the integrity of distant Docker registries.

Docker course training overview

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