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Docker Primer (Rev: 06/02)

May 1, 2024

Docker has become a cornerstone of the modern development stack: how applications are built, shipped, and run. It is an excellent solution to the portability problem: containers run consistently on any machine, eliminating the "it works on my machine" problem. It leverages containers: self-contained units of software that package the components needed for an application to run. This primer introduces its core concepts.