Docker
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A container is another process on your machine that isolated from all other processes on the host.
Docker use client-server architecture.
Docker client: the CLI tool used to interact with Docker deamon through API, to manage images, containers, networks and other Docker components.
Docker deamon: background process that manages Docker containers, images, networks, and volumes. It is continuously listening for API requests from Docker Client.
Docker registry: repositories where Docker images are stored and shared. Docker Hub is a public registry maintained by Docker.
Docker image: packages that contain everything needed to run an application (app code, libraries, and dependencies)
Docker container: instance of Docker images that are created and run on a host system.
Each container separated from other containers and the host. But they can connect with other containers and outside world through network interface.
Docker network: virtual networks that connect Docker containers to each others & outside the world.
