THE ROAD TO DOCKER: A SURVEY

Abstract

The interest on conventional technologies is declining with the increasing demand on new technologies. In the virtualization industry, container based technology has become the most powerful technologies in the last couple of years. With the arrival of Docker, implementation of containerization technology has become more simplified and efficient. Unlike other virtualization platform, Docker is an open source software container platform that provides some facilities, which are useful for developers and administrators. Docker has the traits of providing fast and lightweight virtualization on operating system-level, because of which Docker has become popular technology to serve variety of cloud platforms. Development cost and time can be brought down tremendously by simply replacing traditional on-going virtual machine with Docker container. Also with the use of Docker, the cost of re-developing the cloud platform can be reduced to great extent.