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Facing a complex world of micro-services, libraries, infrastructure and more?

Docker technology offers development teams a way to simplify complicated scaling and deployment. To get started, check out these basics.

Basic #1: What is Docker?
It offers an open platform to build, ship and run distributed applications as containers, including:

  • Application, binaries and libraries in containers
  • A single OS for each application
  • A lightweight structure for efficient disk usage and image downloads
  • Delta deployment between versions to update an application

Basic #2: Use case for Docker Containers vs. virtual appliances
Docker use case:

  • Run isolated copies of an application for dev/test vs. production
  • Run different release versions of an application
  • Run different customer versions of an application

Virtual appliance use case:

  • Run application with different types of OS
  • Run application with different versions of same OS (service packs)
  • Run different versions of an application

Basic #3: Deployment Options
Similarities exist between Docker and virtual appliance deployment. Both are internally deployed and hosted in the cloud by the software vendor.

What’s different is the delivery of an image: Docker = TAR, virtual appliance = OVF and OVA (TAR).

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What other basics have you discovered in working with Docker?

For more information, download this webinar: Deploy Complex Apps in a Whole New Way.

 

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