Introduction to Docker - Day 1

This is a basic introduction to Docker for Mac. Before we starts to understand Docker, we must know about virtual machine. Readers for this blog is familiar with VirtualBox and Parallel. Recently, we are testing various new Linux distribution via virtual machine. So far we have installed more than 10 different flavor of Linux distribution. It takes up more than 80GB of hard disk space. Since, a lot of them are different flavor of Debian/Ubuntu distribution, there are a lot of repetitive installation. We are not going to show the standard layered chart. If you preferred the official layered chart, please check out the tutorial from docker. The chart below is an example of what happened to by Macbook Pro. Linux App Linux App Linux App Linux App Linux App Linux App Antergos FreeBSD Manjaro Ubuntu Elementary MX Linux App App VirtualBox Parallel Mac OS X Macbook Pro Hardware If we use Docker, then we can dispense with installing different flavor of Linux. We can still hav...