By Poly, Solution Sales Specialist at Flat Rock
Docker and how it is relevant to your business
Docker containers in comparison with VMs (virtual machines) can be visualized the following way:
Even though Docker is an open source project, it interacts equally well with both Linux, Mac OS and Windows operating systems and that offers the opportunity for wide penetration of this technology in the modern tech world.
Reasoning behind using it
But what are the features that make Docker become a vital part of any software company developing large-scale networks? It has:
> An extra layer of abstraction with almost zero overhead
> The ability to run any platform with its own config on top of the existing infrastructure
> Consistent environment from development through testing to production
> Application isolation
> Server consolidation (clustering)
> Security isolation - better than a shared web server, worse than a single VM. An application running in one container only has access to the ports and files explicitly exposed by the other container.
Docker simplifies the development of highly distributed systems by allowing a number of applications to run autonomously on a single physical machine or across multiple virtual machines. It makes it the right long-term solution for enterprises that deal with various projects at the same time.
