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The main classes of Docker objects are images, containers, and services. [23] A Docker container is a standardized, encapsulated environment that runs applications. [26] A container is managed using the Docker API or CLI. [23] A Docker image is a read-only template used to build containers. Images are used to store and ship applications. [23]
In computing, Podman (pod manager) is an open source Open Container Initiative (OCI)-compliant [2] container management tool from Red Hat used for handling containers, images, volumes, and pods on the Linux operating system, [3] with support for Mac OS and Microsoft Windows via a virtual machine. [4]
The Open Container Initiative (OCI) is a Linux Foundation project, started in June 2015 by Docker, CoreOS, and the maintainers of appc (short for "App Container") to design open standards for operating system-level virtualization .
Singularity is a free and open-source computer program that performs operating-system-level virtualization also known as containerization. [4]One of the main uses of Singularity is to bring containers and reproducibility to scientific computing and the high-performance computing (HPC) world.
Docker, Inc. is an American technology company that develops productivity tools built around Docker, which automates the deployment of code inside software containers. [1] [2] Major commercial products of the company are Docker Hub, a central repository of containers, and Docker Desktop, a GUI application for Windows and Mac to manage containers.
It is a container hypervisor providing an API to manage LXC containers. [14] The LXD project was started in 2015 and was sponsored from the start by Canonical Ltd. , the company behind Ubuntu . On 4 July 2023, the LinuxContainers project announced that Canonical had decided to take over the LXD project but a fork called Incus was made.
Unraid utilizes Docker to allow users to create and manage Docker containers to host applications on the system. In doing so, this allows Unraid users to host applications that may not support the Unraid operating system directly, could be difficult to install & remove, or may not behave correctly with other applications running on the same system.
Containers emerged as a way to make software portable. The container contains all the packages needed to run a service. The provided file system makes containers extremely portable and easy to use in development. A container can be moved from development to test or production with no or relatively few configuration changes.