Dockers are gaining more popularity these days. It helps developers create smaller modular components, and also the packaging and distributing of the code is easy in Docker. These are the reasons why, Docker has also become the appropriate choice in microservice platform. We will also be learning to use Docker in a microservice. Before that, let's understand Docker a little bit and learn how to install Docker.
Container is not a new term; it has been there since long. Containers are evolving during this time. They are lightweight OS virtualization. Containers are run on a host OS, which uses and shares resources from the host kernel. Each container is run in isolation, but they share underlying operating system resources though a layer. Containers come with their own benefits:
- Lightweight
- High performance and speed
- Ship infrastructure with code
- Support microservice architecture
- Lesser portability issues
- Simplifies DevOps
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