Chapter Summary

Summary of the contents covered in this chapter.

  • The Docker Engine is a platform that makes it easy to build, ship, and run containers. It implements the OCI standards and is a modular app comprising many small, specialized components.

  • The Docker daemon implements the Docker API, but most other functionality has been stripped out and implemented as standalone composable tools such as containerd and runc.

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