Docker’s Solution to Slimmer Containers

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 18, 2016

Docker containers are an amazing boon to developers and operations, and they’re essential tools to the emerging field of DevOps. By bundling an application with its runtime environment, you sidestep a potential world of pain.

For anyone who’s ever written code in one environment and run it in another, it’s a familiar problem. The application works on your laptop. It works on the test server. But, when you try to go live on the production server, it crashes.

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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