Docker is an open-source platform that packages applications into containers. Think of containers as lightweight, portable boxes. Each box holds everything your app needs to run: code, libraries, and ...

Though it has some limitations.

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Linux, of course, has long had hypervisors such as its built-in KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) and Xen but containers take a different approach to virtualization. In traditional hypervisors, the entire ...