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Tips and tricks for administering containers

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Tips and tricks for administering containers

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- [David] It's my hope that thus far in the course, you've picked up a number of tips on how to administer containers, but I wanted to quickly summarize some of the most common tips and tricks that you need to know about when it comes to administering containers. One of the first commands I wanted to show you is docker version. Docker version shows us here the specific version of docker, the docker engine, that we're using on the client. In this case, the client is where we're administering docker locally and then the docker server. In this case, that happens to be the exact same machine. However, it doesn't always have to be. You can point your docker client to another docker server that's running on a remote host. In this case, both the client and the server are using the same build, docker version 18, of the engine and it's the community edition, beta1 build. You can see that the OS architecture is Windows in both cases and that's because we've switched over to Windows containers…

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