Containers are like virtual machines, only without the hardware emulation. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LXC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LXC See http://do

Containers are like virtual machines, only without the hardware emulation. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LXC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LXC See http://docs.docker.io/en/latest/faq/#how-do-containers-compare-to-virtual-machines http://docs.docker.io/en/latest/faq/#how-do-containers-compa... Docker is a mechanism to bundle an application together inside a container (think VM instance) in a way that makes it easier to distribute.