There is so much more to Docker than just the idea of immutable containers. For a start, Docker made using containers easy. That's no small feat for a tricky piece of technical infrastructure.

An underrated benefit of Docker Compose is the convenience of keeping the stack of containers up to date. It doesn’t happen automatically, but you can always run a simple command - docker ...

That enables Docker to sell its branded, certified and supported Containers-as-a-Service stack, the Docker Enterprise Edition (EE), which CEO Ben Golub says is getting great uptake among large ...

So now finally we get to Docker, which is the containerization technology that is getting all of the attention right now. In the Linux operating system, Docker's actual containerization engine is LXC.

Since November 2017, Docker also supports the one-time rival Kubernetes container orchestration system as well, which is also a project hosted by the CNCF. Data Point No. 6: Docker is saving the world ...