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