What is docker? | Docker Overview

- Docker is an open-source containerization platform.

- Docker container technology was launched in 2013 as an open-source Docker engine. Supports both Windows and Linux.

- It enables developers to package applications into containers-standardized executable components combining application source code with the operating system libraries and dependencies required to run that code in any environment.

- Docker is written in Go programming language.

- Takes advantage of several features of the Linux kernel to deliver.

- Docker uses a technology called "namespaces" to provide the isolated workspace called the container.