Swagger

Swagger is the Framework for designing and creating blueprint of API using common language enabling the development across the whole API lifecycle including documentation, design, development, testing and deployment.

This framework provides set of tools for developers to create client and server code with self-generated documentation for web services.

Swagger API specification officially named as OpenAPI specification

Swagger specification can be written in YAML or JSON

More details and examples are given here

swagger guide

Docker Container

What is container ?

• Containers are completely isolated environments with it’s own processor, Network and Mounts, But Shares the Host OS Kernel ! and managed by Docker software installed on the OS
• containers available from many years, some of them are LXC, LXD and LXCFS
• Docker uses LXC container
• Docker offers easy and user-friendly utilities and tools to manage the communication between containers and OS Kernel
• Docker software is specific to OS Kernel so Linux, Windows and Mac will have slightly different Docker software installed on Their OS.
• Docker containers on VM’s is an ideal situation

more details are given here.

Docker Container guide