Docker – an open platform for distributed applications for sysadmins and developers

How to define Docker?

Docker is an open platform for developers and sysadmins to build, ship, and run any application anywhere. It include a portable, lightweight runtime and packaging tool called Docker Engine and a cloud service for sharing applications and automating workflows called Docker Hub. 

Docker lets you to assemble quickly apps from components and eliminate the friction between development, QA, and production environments. 

What benefits do developers receive when using Docker?

Docker lets developers build any app in any language using any toolchain. The app is completely portable and can run anywhere. By starting with one of the 13,000+ apps available on Docker Hub, developers can get going quickly. Docker Hub also allows developers to automate their build pipeline and share artifacts with collaborators through public or private repositories.

With Docker, developers can build and ship higher-quality applications faster.

What benefits do sysadmins receive when using Docker?

With Docker, sysadmins can provide standardized environments for their development, QA, and production teams and eliminate differences in OS distributions and underlying infrastructure. Due to standardizing on the Docker Engine, sysadmins are given flexibility in where workloads run. Importantly, with Docker sysadmins can deploy and run any app on anywhere, reliably and quickly.

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Which Computing Platforms Are Open?

It is a fact that many popular platforms are still open platforms while closed platforms have increased for few years. But which computing platforms are open? Continue to read this article. 

Apple Mac OS X

This computing platform is open. Its store has various restrictions on developers and subjects their apps to sandboxing. However, developers can leave it and deliver their products directly to users. Additionally, users can disable a setting restricting to install apps from outside the store. 

Linux & Google Chrome OS

You can install anything you want on Linux and chrome OS which is a platform based on Linux. You can tog on developer mode and install other software alongside your Chrome OS system. What is more, users still can install apps and extensions from outside the store though Chrome can only install web apps and extensions from the Chrome Web Store by default. 

Google Android

Google Android is an open platform. As you are aware, you only can install software from Google Play by default but there is still a way to install Android apps from outside the store.

Amazon Kindle Fire

Due to being based on an Android, Amazon Kindle Fire is also offers the same freedom. It means users can install apps from outside Amazon’s Appstore.

BlackBerry

You can install apps from outside BlackBerry’s app store when using BlackBerry devices. 

In fact, these open platforms offer the freedom to decide what runs without becoming criminals because a open platform lets developers to easily distribute their software directly to users.

Source: howtogeek

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