You run containers, not dockers - Discussing Docker variants, components and versioning

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Podman

I admit the title of this section sounds worse than it is, but the fact is that sometimes when you install Podman, you can also have an alias called "docker" pointing to "podman". That can make you believe that you are running Docker and come to the Docker forum asking about an issue which is actually not related to Docker. The alias exists because Podman tries to keep a similar command line interface to the interface of Docker, so when someone relies on an existing docker command, they don't have to rewrite their scripts if they are lucky.

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runc

Now we have dockerd which uses containerd, but containerd will not create containers directly. It needs a runtime and the default runtime is runc, but that can be changed. Containerd actually doesn't have to know the parameters of the runtime. There is a shim process between containerd and runc, so containerd knows the parameters of the shim, and the shim knows the parameters of runc or other runtimes.

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Docker Compose

There is another plugin called Docker Compose. There was a Compose v1 originally written in Python for which we used the docker-compose command, but now we need to use docker compose without the dash.

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Docker for AWS

I don't recommend using docker.io today as it will install an older version (at the time of writing this post, it is 24.0.7 on Ubuntu 22.04) and most of the tutorials will show you features based the official version and the official documentation.

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containerd

So once we had a single binary, then "Docker, Inc" started separating the functionalities into multiple binaries on Linux. That was the beginning the of dependencies and components we have today, except that these dependencies are now not limited to Docker. Containerd can also be the container runtime of Kubernetes.

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