Core Concepts · TL;DR

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TL;DR

A Docker container is just an isolated Linux process — its own filesystem (image layers), network namespace, and cgroup-enforced resource limits — orchestrated by the Docker daemon, containerd, and runc. The skills that matter day-to-day are writing Dockerfiles that cache well (copy deps first, code last), using multi-stage builds to ship tiny images, and running as a non-root user.

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