Docker
Docker is an open-source engine that automates the deployment of any application as a lightweight, portable, self-sufficient container that will run virtually anywhere.
Cost / License
- Freemium (Subscription)
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Self-Hosted
- TrueNAS
Features
Properties
- Lightweight
Features
- Container Virtualization
- Virtualization
- Server Management
- Command line interface
- Ad-free
- Portable
- No registration required
- Hypervisor
Tags
- Containers
- VMware
- app-container
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Recent News
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Docker is no longer sunsetting its Free Team PlanTwelve days ago, Docker had announced that it was going to sunset its Free Team Plan, and that user...
- POX published news article about Docker
Docker Sunsetting Free Team Subscription: Users Have One Month to Convert or Risk Losing AccessDocker has announced (via an email) that it will be sunsetting its Free Team Organization subscript...
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What is Docker?
Docker is an open-source engine that automates the deployment of any application as a lightweight, portable, self-sufficient container that will run virtually anywhere.
Docker containers can encapsulate any payload, and will run consistently on and between virtually any server. The same container that a developer builds and tests on a laptop will run at scale, in production*, on VMs, bare-metal servers, OpenStack clusters, public instances, or combinations of the above.
Common use cases for Docker include:
• Automating the packaging and deployment of applications • Creation of lightweight, private PAAS environments • Automated testing and continuous integration/deployment • Deploying and scaling web apps, databases and backend services
Docker is available as Community Edition (CE) for free and an Enterprise Edition (EE) subscription with software, support and certification.
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Subscription ranging between $5 and $21 per month + free version with limited functionality.Alternatives
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Comments and Reviews
Docker is sorta like portable software, but think of it like making your entire development environment (your framework and all dependent libraries, web/database servers, even the OS) portable. Better yet, instead of downloading and unzipping to a folder, you can just run a simple command to get up and running -- it really can't get simpler than that in terms of setting up a development environment. After you "dockerize" for the first time, going back to copying configuration files and what not will feel so archaic. One warning though: Docker consumes memory like it's bottled water after being in the desert for a month. My 8GB system went from 35% memory consumption to over 60% memory consumption by using Docker. I recommend a machine with 16GB RAM if you plan to use Docker full-time.
When will the bug of docker being incompatible with arm64 on mac be resolved? I am already considering using other tools to replace docker, such as Servbay, MAMP
Great for development on multiple different systems