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Docker - Features

Some of the key features of Docker are as follows:

  • Easy and Faster configuration
  • Increase productivity
  • Application Isolation
  • Swarm
  • Routing Mesh
  • Services
  • Security Management

Easy and Faster configuration​

  • This is a key feature of docker that helps us to configure the system easily and faster.

  • We can deploy our code in less time.

Increase productivity​

  • Docker easing technical configuration and rapid deployment of application.

Application Isolation​

  • It provides containers that are used to run applications in isolation environment.

Swarm​

  • It is a clustering and scheduling tool for Docker Containers. It allows the user to manage multiple containers deployed across multiple host machines.

Routing Mesh​

  • It routes the incoming requests for published ports on available nodes to an active container.

Services​

  • Services is a list of tasks that lets us specify the state of the container inside a cluster.

Security Management​

  • It allows us to save secrets into the swarm itself and then choose to give services access to certain secrets.

  • It includes some important commands to the engine like secret inspect, secret create etc.