Docker Introduction If you’ve been following trends in the “cloud” world, you’ve probably heard of Docker. It is “an open source project to pack, ship and run any application as a lightweight container.” The container is a standard packaging of applications. The idea is to provide a comprehensive abstraction layer that allows developers to “containerize” or “package” any application and have it run on any infrastructure. The most common analogy used to help people understand is saying that Docker containers are like shipping containers: they provide a standard, consistent way of shipping just about anything. Their containers provide a standard, [...]