A Gentle Introduction to Containerization and Docker

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Podman Landing Page
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Podman

Simple debugging tool for pods and images
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- Open Source
Even though we will focus on Docker for this article, I wanted to mention that there are more container creation and management tools such as Podman, Rkt, and so on.

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Nest.js Landing Page
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Nest.js

A progressive Node.js framework for building efficient, reliable and scalable server-side applications.
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- Open Source
It’s a text document that contains all the commands a user could call to assemble an image. Let’s check an example of a Dockerfile for a nodejs app in this case it will be a NestJS app and then explain each part.

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Docker Hub Landing Page
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Docker Hub

Docker Hub is a cloud-based registry service
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- Open Source
There are a lot of docker-compatible registries almost every cloud provider has its registry but for this article, we will use the docker registry called docker hub. Go to the website create a new account and sign in then you can push or pull images.

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Docker for AWS Landing Page
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Docker for AWS

Docker Enterprise Edition (EE) for AWS This deployment is fully baked and tested, and comes with the latest Docker Enterprise Edition for AWS. This release is maintained and receives security...
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- Open Source
This article wanted to be a brief and gentle introduction to the container and docker world, there is a lot more to learn so don’t hesitate to check the docker documentation.

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