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It's a must-have for Docker users ...

Docker is a software platform for building applications based on containers—small and lightweight execution environments that make shared use of the operating system kernel but otherwise run in ...

Containers can be considered the third wave in service provision after physical boxes (the first wave) and virtual machines (the second wave). Instead of working with complete servers (hardware or ...

Linux, of course, has long had hypervisors such as its built-in KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) and Xen but containers take a different approach to virtualization. In traditional hypervisors, the entire ...