Docker

Learn about the Docker Toolbox and Community Edition for macOS and Windows, as well as Docker.

As we’ve discussed, the low-level container capabilities of Linux were available but required highly specialized expertise to use. A team at a company called dotCloud started an internal, proprietary project to wrap these low-level features with a more accessible toolset. That team released Docker as open source in March 2013, then started Docker, Inc. to continue its development.

Docker was developed to democratize the container features of Linux, providing a high-level command-line interface (CLI) and application programming interface (API) to define, run, and manage containers. The CLI and API provide tools to run and manage containers without the need to know the detailed inner workings of the Linux kernel extensions ...