Docker
Docker is an open-source platform for packaging applications with their dependencies into containers and running them in isolation.
Docker is software that packages application code together with its libraries, settings and other runtime requirements into images, then runs those images as containers. Docker, Inc., a U.S. company then called dotCloud, released it as open source in 2013. Containers share the host operating system kernel while keeping processes and file systems separate, which makes them lighter than virtual machines. Docker Desktop includes Docker Model Runner, a feature for pulling AI models from Docker Hub and other registries, running them locally and serving them through an OpenAI-compatible API.
Because the same image runs the same way on a developer's computer, a server or a cloud platform, Docker is widely used to reduce problems caused by differences between environments. Large container deployments are often managed with orchestration tools such as Kubernetes.
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