Docker

• Founded in 2010

  • Most popular container engine

  • Available on Linux, Mac, Windows

  • Requires root privileges

Docker manages Dockerhub, a central repository where people can upload Docker images to share to the wider community.

We're going to grab an image from Dockerhub and use it for some examples. A very basic image available on Dockerhub is the Ubuntu image, which provides a bare-bones Ubuntu environment.