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Not everyone needs a full-blown virtual machine to run certain types of software – Docker is a lightweight alternative that uses containers to wrap up Linux applications and dependencies in a minimal environment. Readers of this magazine will have seen our many tutorials for Docker over the past few years and got a good idea of how it works.
But Docker isn’t perfect – it was originally designed for development rather than production-ready use, which has led to question marks over