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Last Updated : 6/11/2021

Why Docker

With a comparatively small overhead docker simply give the luxury of virtually attaching a workspace to an isolated (potentially even ephemeral) sandbox engine for developers.

When things are ready for deployment we can create lean, robust and portable containers.

Docker is not a virtual machine, with hardware/firmware providers presenting their own runtimes such as the nvidia-container-runtime they can be more closer to the machine while still having the advantages containers provide.

Also Docker is not the only container solution, there are others too. e.g. LXD, podman, kubernetes and OpenVz

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