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Get started with the Docker basics in this comprehensive overview, You'll learn about containers, images, and how to containerize your first application.
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Welcome! We're excited that you want to learn Docker.

This guide contains step-by-step instructions on how to get started with Docker. This guide shows you how to:

  • Build and run an image as a container.
  • Share images using Docker Hub.
  • Deploy Docker applications using multiple containers with a database.
  • Run applications using Docker Compose.

What is a container?

A container is a sandboxed process running on a host machine that is isolated from all other processes running on that host machine. That isolation leverages kernel namespaces and cgroups, features that have been in Linux for a long time. Docker makes these capabilities approachable and easy to use. To summarize, a container:

  • Is a runnable instance of an image. You can create, start, stop, move, or delete a container using the DockerAPI or CLI.
  • Can be run on local machines, virtual machines, or deployed to the cloud.
  • Is portable (and can be run on any OS).
  • Is isolated from other containers and runs its own software, binaries, configurations, etc.

What is a container image?

A running container uses an isolated filesystem. This isolated filesystem is provided by a container image, and the container image must contain everything needed to run an application - all dependencies, configurations, scripts, binaries, etc. The image also contains other configurations for the container, such as environment variables, a default command to run, and other metadata.

This guide covers topics such as image layers, best practices, and more.

Note

If you're familiar with chroot, then think of a container as an extended version of chroot. The filesystem comes from the image. However, a container adds additional isolation not available when using chroot.

Next steps

In this section, we introduced containers and container images.

Next, we containerize a simple application.

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