This is a pretty good analogy for containers but there's an unfortunate conflation of terms. There's actually a distinction with computing containers between th

This is a pretty good analogy for containers but there's an unfortunate conflation of terms. There's actually a distinction with computing containers between the thing that you ship code around as and the thing that you run code in. The latter is the real container while the prior is called a "container image" or often simply an "image." This gets confusing quick if you apply this analogy since you assume that the thing you ship the code as would naturally be called the container.