Living in a Docker world

How much do you know about containers?

Once upon a time, I worked at a startup that was looking to "Dockerize" its backend infrastructure. This developed into a running joke where the programmers on the team would ask me if I knew what Docker was, and I would say:

"Yes, it's like a boat."

This would frustrate the programmers, which was my intention. They would howl about how wrong I was, and they could never quite calm down enough to clarify how Docker wasn't like a boat.

I was, of course, basing my concept of Docker entirely on the Docker logo, which is sort of a whale / boat hybrid, filled to the brim with shipping containers.

So, as a much-belated apology to those programmers I harassed, I'd like to try and explain Docker now.

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