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Images vs. containers

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Images vs. containers

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- [Instructor] When it comes to using containers in Windows, you first need to understand what an image is and how an image is different than a container. So let's talk briefly about the difference between images and containers. A container image is a packaged application that's ready to be run as a container. So if you think about downloading an application from, for example, the Apple or Microsoft app store to your local desktop, you can think of that as an image. You download the image of that application, which is packaged up in a zip file or a Microsoft MSI installer or an Apple Mac PKG file, and then you install that on your local operating system. And then once you run that application, you can think of that as a container. In other words, images are executable packages that include the application code, the runtime, the libraries, the variables, and the configuration files that you'll need to execute or run the application. The image, once it's run, is referred to as a…

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