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Docker

Meaning in cloud computing & devops, with examples

/ˈdɑːkər/nounCore term

In cloud computing & devops, Docker means: A widely used platform for building container images and running containers. It made containers popular after its release in 2013.

In Turkish: Docker, konteyner platformu

How it is used

A product name, so it is written with a capital D, but in speech it is also used as a verb or adjective: 'dockerize the app', 'Docker image', 'Docker Compose file'. Many people use 'Docker' to mean containers in general.

Example sentences

  1. Install Docker on your laptop and run the whole stack with one command.

  2. We dockerized the legacy app so it can finally run on Kubernetes.

Common collocations

  • Docker image
  • Docker container
  • Docker Compose
  • dockerize an app
  • Docker Hub
  • containerA lightweight, isolated package that holds an application together with everything it needs to run, so it behaves the same on a laptop, a test server or in the cloud.
  • container imageA read-only package with an application, its libraries and settings, used as the template from which containers are started.
  • DockerfileA text file with step-by-step instructions, such as FROM, COPY and RUN, that Docker follows to build a container image.
  • container registryA storage service for container images, where pipelines push new images and servers or clusters pull them when they need to run them.
  • KubernetesAn open-source system that runs and manages containers across many machines: it starts them, restarts failed ones, spreads traffic and scales them up or down.

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