| :title: Docker Documentation |
| :description: An overview of the Docker Documentation |
| :keywords: containers, lxc, concepts, explanation |
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| Introduction |
| ------------ |
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| Docker is an open-source engine to easily create lightweight, portable, |
| self-sufficient containers from any application. The same container that a |
| developer builds and tests on a laptop can run at scale, in production, on |
| VMs, bare metal, OpenStack clusters, or any major infrastructure provider. |
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| Common use cases for Docker include: |
| |
| - Automating the packaging and deployment of web applications. |
| - Automated testing and continuous integration/deployment. |
| - Deploying and scaling databases and backend services in a service-oriented environment. |
| - Building custom PaaS environments, either from scratch or as an extension of off-the-shelf platforms like OpenShift or Cloud Foundry. |
| |
| Please note Docker is currently under heavy developement. It should not be used in production (yet). |
| |
| For a high-level overview of Docker, please see the `Introduction |
| <http://www.docker.io/learn_more/>`_. When you're ready to start working with |
| Docker, we have a `quick start <http://www.docker.io/gettingstarted>`_ |
| and a more in-depth guide to :ref:`ubuntu_linux` and other |
| :ref:`installation_list` paths including prebuilt binaries, |
| Vagrant-created VMs, Rackspace and Amazon instances. |
| |
| Enough reading! :ref:`Try it out! <running_examples>` |
