Now, let's discuss how a system that can run Docker containers is designed at a high level. The following diagram illustrates what a computer that Docker has been installed on looks like. Note that a computer that has Docker installed on it is often called a Docker host because it can run or host Docker containers:
High-level architecture diagram of the Docker engine
In the preceding diagram, we can see three essential parts:
- On the bottom, we have the Linux operating system
- In the middle, in dark gray, we have the container runtime
- On the top, we have the Docker engine
Containers are only possible due to the fact that the Linux OS provides some primitives, such as namespaces, control groups, layer capabilities, and more, all of which are leveraged in a very specific way by the container runtime and the Docker engine. Linux kernel...
