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Understanding Docker architecture

Understanding Docker architecture

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Understanding Docker architecture

- [Instructor] Now let's talk about Docker and what it is. Docker tries to solve a very simple problem. It works on my machine. Sometimes you have a situation when everything looks very nice and your machine is running without any issues, but once you try to deploy to production it stops working. So what is Docker? It's an application or a set of applications including some tools that makes it very easy to create applications that run inside of a container. Now Docker is made of three different parts. One part is called the Registry. The registry is one big database that contains a lot of images. An image is nothing more than just a pre-configured operating system with all the services on top of that, including the application that it is supposed to run. Now the second part of Docker is the Docker host. The Docker host has a component called the Docker daemon. The daemon is an application that runs behind the curtains and it gets images and creates containers based on images. So an…

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