Docker for Managers
summary
Container tech provisions in hundreds of milliseconds instead of minutes, yielding 10x–40x density versus VMs and enabling immutable delivery with identical bits from laptop to production. Google reports 2.2 billion containers/week and Yelp runs 15 containers/second, showing web-scale usage. Docker (since 2013) adds a union filesystem and a simple "docker run" flow and Docker Hub hit 1 billion image downloads; engine downloads climbed from 100M to 500M in months. Orchestration options are Swarm, Kubernetes, Mesosphere, Nomad; networking work includes the open LiveNetwork project with plug-ins for Cisco, VMware NSX, Juniper and Arista.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Start
- 1:56Overview
- 4:20History of Virtualization
- 13:36Why OS Level Virtualization
- 17:12Why Docker?
- 21:17Docker and Windows
- 22:11Open Containers
- 22:37Cloud Native Computing Foundation
- 23:11Orchestration
- 24:42Networking
- 25:46Immutable Infrastructure
- 28:55GAPS








