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Docker is an open standards platform for developing, packaging and running portable distributed applications. Using Docker, developers and sysadmins may build, ship and run applications on any platform such as a PC, the cloud, data center or a virtual machine. Getting all the required dependencies for a software application including the code, the runtime libraries, and the system tools and libraries is often a challenge when developing and running an application. Docker simplifies the application development and execution by packaging all the required software for an application including the dependencies into a single software unit called a Docker image that may be run on any platform and environment.
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Vohra, D. (2016). Hello Docker. In: Pro Docker. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-1830-3_1
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