What are Containers?
Container package application software with their dependencies in order to abstract from the infrastructure it runs on. Now containers basically offer a logical packaging mechanism in which applications can be abstracted from the environment in which they actually run. Now, this decoupling allows container-based applications to be deployed easily and consistently regardless the target environment is a private data center, the public cloud even a developer’s personal laptop.
Kubernetes vs Docker
Pre-requisites: Kubernetes, Docker
Docker is a platform for containerization, while Kubernetes manages containers for numerous container runtimes. There are various container runtimes supported by Kubernetes. Some are
- Docker
- Containers
- CRI-O
- Mirantis Container Runtime