Docker for Multi-containers Web Application

Abstract

Open Source Software are gaining popularity over licensed software and Docker is one of them. Docker has many advantages when compared with virtual machines environment. This attracts developers for building micro services that will run over containers. The demand in the market for docker containers is rapidly increasing. Light weight and speed are the factors due to which docker outperforms virtual machine environment. The time required for starting and running a docker container is very less when compared to virtual machine. Different docker containers shares the resources provided by the operating system via kernel. On the top of the operating system kernel, the entire container is executed in a confined way. This paper considers the advantages of docker and proposed a docker deployed applications.