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Docker Containers

The document defines Docker containers and components. It describes Docker as a platform to develop, ship, and run applications in isolated environments called containers. It discusses the Docker engine, client-server architecture, and components like the daemon, CLI, REST API. It also covers Docker objects like images, containers, services, and registries.

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Docker Containers

The document defines Docker containers and components. It describes Docker as a platform to develop, ship, and run applications in isolated environments called containers. It discusses the Docker engine, client-server architecture, and components like the daemon, CLI, REST API. It also covers Docker objects like images, containers, services, and registries.

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Docker Containers & Components

Definition
Docker is a open source available platform which allows you to develop, ship and
run your applications. It enables everyone to separate their applications from the
infrastructure on which they are built thus making the software delivery process
faster than the normal approach.

So docker allows you to package and run your application in a isolated


environment that is called as a container. The isolation and security makes it
possible to run as many containers on your host machine.

Docker provides us with a platform that helps manage the life


cycle of the containers:
1) Firstly it allows to develop your application and its components using a
container.

2) Secondly this container unit becomes the main unit of distribution or testing
your application.

3) Thirdly, this can be deployed in production as a container or a service once you


are ready.

Now let us understand what a Docker engine is and what goes on inside it.

it is a client server application with major components as:


1) Server - Which is the long running program called the daemon process.

2) REST API - Which is used by the programs to talk to the daemon and to instruct
it what to do.

3) Command Line Interface - To type in the commands.

The CLI uses the REST API to talk or control the docker daemon using CLI
commands. The daemon can create and manage docker objects such as the
image, container, network or the volumes.

Docker has a client-server architecture. The docker client communicates with the
docker daemon, which usually build, run or distribute the containers. Docker
client and daemon can run on same system or a docker client can communicate to
a remote docker daemon. Both of them uses REST API, over UNIX sockets or a
network interface to communicate.

Let us see the different components one by one


Docker Daemon
It listens for the API requests from clients and also manages the docker objects
such as images, containers, networks, and volumes. It communicates with
otherdocker daemons to manage different docker services.
Docker Client
It is the primary way used by many docker users to interact with docker. When
commands are fired through CLI they are sent to dockerd, which carries them out.
It uses the docker API and it can communicate with one or more daemons.

Docker Registries
It is used to store docker images. One such public registry is the Docker Hub.
Docker by default uses Docker Hub to look for images.When docker pull or docker
run command are used, it pulls the required image from the registry and when
you use docker push, the image is pushed to the registry.

Docker Objects
When we use docker there are different docker objects that we come across. Let
us check them one by one and get a brief overview of some of them

Docker Images : Docker image is a read only template with different commands
for creating a container. We can also write down our own custom images and
publish it over Docker Hub.

Docker Containers
It is the runnable instance of an docker image. Anyone can create,run, start, stop
or delete a container using API or CLI commands. Container can be connected to
one or more virtual private networks.

Docker Services
It allows us to scale containers across multiple docker daemons, which all
together works as a swarm cluster with multiple managers or workers. All the
members in a swarm is a docker daemon and they communicate with each other
using the Docker API.

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