The Power of Docker

What is Docker? #

• Docker is an open platform that allows the user to virtually create different software packages in things called, "containers"

Why is Docker so powerful? #

• Docker is so powerful because you're able to very easily create software and play around with it very quickly without having to worry about a lot of the backend part of the code and how getting the server up and running works

How to use 'Play with Docker' #

• To start with 'Play with Docker' you'll need to head over to the website

• Once you're on the website, create an account and login. Once you log in the green "login" button on the homepage will change to say "start"

• Once you hit start, you'll see a page that looks like this:

• Now to start playing around with Docker you can just hit the "+ Add New Instance" button" and you'll start the Docker server and the webpage will look like this:

• Now you're all ready to play around with Docker, have fun!

Creating a DockerFile for our NASA Image Search repo #

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