Docker uses a persistent background service, dockerd, to manage container lifecycles. The CLI communicates with this daemon, which supervises container creation, networking, and resource allocation.

In the world of software development, the tools we use to package and run our applications are crucial. They can make the difference between a smooth, efficient workflow and a tangled mess of ...

Here’s a head-to-head on which container tools businesses are using the most in 2023 based off a new Flexera survey around Kubernetes, AWS ECS/ESK, Docker and Azure Kubernetes Services. “Kubernetes ...

Despite their inferior isolation capabilities, containers have a couple of advantages compared to virtual machines. Unlike virtual machines, they’re extremely lightweight, so you can run a handful of ...

Running a Linux virtual machine on Mac can be resource-exhaustive, but Apple just made it much better in macOS 26 with native support for running Linux containers without the need for third-party apps ...

Vagrant and Docker both provision resources needed to support cloud-native deployments, though they focus on different parts of the deployment stack. Developers use Vagrant to provision VMs upon which ...