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Docker alternatives - Docker Tutorial
From the course: Learning Docker
Docker alternatives
- [Instructor] Docker is not the only way to create containers. Many other solutions exist, each with their advantages and disadvantages. In 2016, Kubernetes, the largest and most popular tool for managing large numbers of containers, created the Container Runtime Interface, or C-R-I, or CRI, to allow developers to create their own container run times and add or remove features necessary for their projects. CRI-O, runc, and Firecracker from AWS, or Amazon Web Services, are examples of CRI-compliant container run times. One of the biggest concerns with the Docker Engine is that most containers that it creates runs as the root super user. Since applications inside of containers can quote unquote "break out of them" and see stuff on their hosts, this can be a problematic security issue. This motivated Red Hat to create Podman, a container platform for creating highly secure containers. Containers created by Podman can be…
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