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If you click on the project name at the top of the page, you'll find a README which starts with: Docker complements LXC with a high-level API which operates at
by shykes 14y ago
If you click on the project name at the top of the page, you'll find a README which starts with:
Docker complements LXC with a high-level API which operates at the process level. It runs unix processes with strong guarantees of isolation and repeatability across servers.
Docker is a great building block for automating distributed systems: large-scale web deployments, database clusters, continuous deployment systems, private PaaS, service-oriented architectures, etc.
- andrewflnr 14y agoFor a lot of people that's not terribly helpful. Before I heard of Docker I had never heard of LXC. Maybe, "Docker is a system for creating and deploying self-contained application packages for Linux," except I'm pretty sure "application package" is the wrong phrase. But that's the gist of why it's interesting, IMHO.