A Decade of Docker Containers – Communications of the ACM

Membership in ACM includes a subscription to Communications of the ACM (CACM), the computing industry's most trusted source for staying connected to the world of advanced computing. For the past decade, Docker has provided a robust solution for building, shipping, and sharing applications. But behind its simple "build and run" workflow lie many years of complex technical challenges. Docker is a widely used developer tool that first simplifies the assembly of an application stack (docker build), then allows for the rapid distribution of the resulting executables and data (docker push), and subsequently supports running multiple applications isolated from one another on the same machine (docker run). Developers can compile their own Docker images via a single Dockerfile alongside their source code, and reuse other published images to share packaging efforts across the global set of programming languages and application stacks. Since Docker’s first release in 2013,14 it has seen rapid ado

Membership in ACM includes a subscription to Communications of the ACM (CACM), the computing industry's most trusted source for staying connected to the world of advanced computing. For the past decade, Docker has provided a robust solution for building, shipping, and sharing applications. But behind its simple "build and run" workflow lie many years of complex technical challenges. Docker is a widely used developer tool that first simplifies the assembly of an application stack (docker build), then allows for the rapid distribution of the resulting executables and data (docker push), and subs