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[–] Yoz@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Can someone please explain me like i am 5 what is docker and containers ? How it works? Can i run anything on it ? Is it like virtualbox ?

[–] SantaClaus@aussie.zone 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Think of a container like a self contained box that can be configured to contain everything a program may need to run.

You can give the box to someone else, and they can use it on their computer without any issues.

So I could build a container that contains my program that hosts cat pictures and give it to you. As long as you have docker installed you can run a command "docker run container X" and it'll run.

[–] needthosepylons@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Well, I wasn't the one asking, but I learned from that nonetheless. Thank you!

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