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What is Docker?

5 min read Quiz at the end
Overview of Docker containers, why they beat VMs, and how they solve the works-on-my-machine problem.

What is Docker?

Docker packages applications into lightweight isolated containers. Unlike VMs, containers share the host OS kernel and start in milliseconds.

  • Build once, run anywhere
  • Consistent dev-to-prod environments
  • 10M+ images on Docker Hub
docker --version
docker run hello-world