Five years ago, Solomon Hykes helped found a business, Docker, which sought to make containers easy to use. With the release of Docker 1.0 in June 2014, the buzz became a roar. And, over the years, it ...

As Kelsey Hightower, Google Cloud Platform staff developer advocate and best-known teacher of all things Kubernetes, tweeted: "Docker != Containers. There are container images. Docker can build them.

Docker is a software platform for building applications based on containers—small and lightweight execution environments that make shared use of the operating system kernel but otherwise run in ...