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How To Use Docker
Or how to never install anything else again
Docker is an open source containerization platform and the one thing you didn’t knew you need until now. It enables you to develop, package and ship applications by running them in a container, an artificial environment, that includes everything you need to run any application.
Containers are lightweight, standalone, and portable units of software that include all the necessary dependencies and configurations needed to run an application. May it be Linux or Windows, it does not matter. You can run everything without ever needing to install anything locally on your machine.
By creating an isolated packaged environment that supports running your application, the underlying host loses its importance, and thus you lose one very well-known excuse for broken applications: “No idea what’s wrong, it works on my machine”.
TL;DR
Docker is a containerization platform, that enables you to run pretty much all software in isolated containers. Learn how to install Docker and compile and run your very first image.
