Containers are meant to provide component isolation in a modern software stack. Put your database in one container, your web application in another, and they can all be scaled, managed, restarted, and ...

Between its well-documented nature, beginner-friendly collection of tools, and thousands of first and third-party images, Docker has a large following in the self-hosting and home lab communities.

Docker containers are meant to be immutable, meaning the code and data they hold never change. Immutability is useful when you want to be sure the code running in production is the same as the code ...