Containers pack and deploy software application are getting immense popularity and claims to be next big thing in 2015. Many bigs guns are adoping it over heavy virtual machine.
Today, i came across concise good article on TechGig on Docker.
What is Docker - A brief introduction
From official Docker site - Docker is an open platform for developers and sysadmins to build, ship, and run distributed applications. Consisting of Docker Engine, a portable, lightweight runtime and packaging tool, and Docker Hub, a cloud service for sharing applications and automating workflows, Docker enables apps to be quickly assembled from components and eliminates the friction between development, QA, and production environments. As a result, IT can ship faster and run the same app, unchanged, on laptops, data center VMs, and any cloud.
