By Charles McDowell
Comptia Certified Linux Networking Professional.
Cisco Certified Networking Technician.
Microsoft Technology Associate Database Administration
“A ship in port is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for.”
Hello all, here is a link to a tutorial on how to set up a light weight Linux container called Alpine. I’ve also jotted down some interesting quotes about docker below.
Tutorial
Fast:
" Imagine booting up a virtual machine (VM), running a command and then killing it; it would take a minute or two just to boot the VM before running the command. A VM has to emulate a full hardware stack, boot an operating system, and then launch your app - it’s a virtualized hardware environment. Docker containers function at the application layer so they skip most of the steps VMs require and just run what is required for the app. Now you know why they say containers are fast!"
Secure :
"Isolation allows users to quickly create separate, isolated test copies of an application or service and have them run side-by-side without interfering with one another. In fact, there is a whole lifecycle where users take their changes and move them up to production using this basic concept and the built-in capabilities of Docker Enterprise."