Key terminology (prerequisites)
There are several key terminologies that are important to understand while trying to build, deploy, and maintain a distributed application that runs on containers. The following is a quick insight into some of those critical terminologies when dealing with containers:
- Operating system – An Operating System (OS) is system software that is critical to control a computer's hardware and software requirements across multiple applications, such as memory, CPU, storage, and so on. The OS coordinates tasks to ensure each application gets what it needs to run successfully. The OS consists of a kernel and software. The kernel is responsible for interacting with the hardware and the software is responsible for running the UI, drivers, file managers, compilers, and so on.
- Virtualization – Virtualization is the act of doing more with less by creating a virtual or software-based version of compute, storage, a network, and so on. It allows...