Containers are meant to provide component isolation in a modern software stack. Put your database in one container, your web application in another, and they can all be scaled, managed, restarted, and ...

Between its well-documented nature, beginner-friendly collection of tools, and thousands of first and third-party images, Docker has a large following in the self-hosting and home lab communities.

Simplifying the mystery: When to use docker, docker-compose, docker swarm and Kubernetes Your email has been sent Recently, I had a reader reach out to me wanting to understand the difference between ...

While most of us have likely spun up a virtual machine (VM) for one reason or another, venturing into the world of containerization with software like Docker is a little trickier. While the tools ...

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Docker is an open-source platform that packages applications into containers. Think of containers as lightweight, portable ...

Docker Compose, the system created by Docker to define multi-container applications, is now to be developed as an open standard. The Compose Specification, as the new standard is called, is meant to ...