What is Docker? Containerization Made Simple

By Sailee Shingare | M.S. in Computer Science, Northern Illinois University (NIU) In the last post, we learned what containers are — lightweight, portable packages that run applications consistently across any environment. But how do you actually create and run a container? That’s where Docker comes in. What is Docker? Docker is an open-source platform that makes it easy to build, ship, and run containers. Before Docker, containers existed but were complicated to work with. Docke...