Is Docker and VMWare same?

VMware emulates machine hardware whereas Docker emulates the operating system in which your application runs. Docker is a much more lightweight virtualization technology since it does not have to emulate server hardware resources.
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Can Docker replace VMware?

Still, it's an overstatement to say that Docker containers will replace traditional virtualization. VMware, KVM and other hypervisor frameworks are not going anywhere anytime soon, thanks to the following reasons: Some applications don't run well in containers.
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Is Docker a container or VM?

What is Docker? Docker is popular virtualization software that helps its users in developing, deploying, monitoring, and running applications in a Docker Container with all their dependencies.
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Can I use Docker as a VM?

Virtual machines

Docker isn't a VM technology. It doesn't simulate a machine's hardware and it doesn't include an operating system. A Docker container is not by default constrained to specific hardware limits. If Docker virtualizes anything, it virtualizes the environment in which services run, not the machine.
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What's the difference between Docker and VM?

The main difference lies in their architecture, demonstrated below. Virtual machines have host OS and the guest OS inside each VM. Guest OS can be any OS, like Linux or Windows, irrespective of host OS. In contrast, Docker containers host on a single physical server with a host OS, which shares among them.
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Do I need a VM to run Docker?

A Dockerized application is just a process that runs on your system. It doesn't require running a Hypervisor (such as VMWare or VirtualBox), which means there's no guest operating system to lug around. I do think there are reasons to use Virtual Machines nowadays, but they solve a different set of problems than Docker.
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Can I run Docker in VMware?

There is no VMware Workstation Pro driver for Docker Machine by default. But, you can install the VMware Workstation Driver from machine-drivers/docker-machine-driver-vmware GitHub repository and use it with Docker Machine.
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Why is Docker better than VM?

Advantages of Docker Containers

Docker containers are process-isolated and don't require a hardware hypervisor. This means Docker containers are much smaller and require far fewer resources than a VM. Docker is fast. Very fast.
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Is Docker a server?

Docker uses a client-server architecture. The Docker client talks to the Docker daemon, which does the heavy lifting of building, running, and distributing your Docker containers. The Docker client and daemon can run on the same system, or you can connect a Docker client to a remote Docker daemon.
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Can Docker run on Windows?

You can run both Linux and Windows programs and executables in Docker containers. The Docker platform runs natively on Linux (on x86-64, ARM and many other CPU architectures) and on Windows (x86-64). Docker Inc. builds products that let you build and run containers on Linux, Windows and macOS.
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What is difference between container and VM?

The key differentiator between containers and virtual machines is that virtual machines virtualize an entire machine down to the hardware layers and containers only virtualize software layers above the operating system level.
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Is Docker a hypervisor?

Hypervisors and Dockers are not the same, and neither can be used interchangeably. People are often confused between the two because of their applications related to virtualization. Let us explore the differences between hypervisor and Docker so that you can figure out as to which suits you the best.
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What is Kubernetes VMWare?

Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration platform that automates the management of containerized applications. VMware provides virtualization platforms used by a majority of enterprises.
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What is a Docker machine?

Docker Machine is a tool for provisioning and managing your Dockerized hosts (hosts with Docker Engine on them). Typically, you install Docker Machine on your local system. Docker Machine has its own command line client docker-machine and the Docker Engine client, docker.
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Which is better VM or container?

Containers are more lightweight than VMs, as their images are measured in megabytes rather than gigabytes. Containers require fewer IT resources to deploy, run, and manage. Containers spin up in milliseconds. Since their order of magnitude is smaller.
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Is Docker a container?

Docker is an open source containerization platform. It enables developers to package applications into containers—standardized executable components combining application source code with the operating system (OS) libraries and dependencies required to run that code in any environment.
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What is VMware do?

VMware vSphere, also referred to as a cloud operating system or a virtualized data center platform, enables IT departments to place application workloads on the most cost-effective compute resource available. VMware offers applications for desktops as well as servers.
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Is Docker a cloud technology?

When docker gets integrated with the cloud, it is named Docker Cloud. Docker Cloud is an official online service to deliver Docker products. Several online services like Azure, AWS, Google cloud platform, etc., are present for enterprises in today's date.
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What is Kubernetes vs Docker?

The difference between the two is that Docker is about packaging containerized applications on a single node and Kubernetes is meant to run them across a cluster. Since these packages accomplish different things, they are often used in tandem. Of course, Docker and Kubernetes can be used independently.
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What is Docker and Kubernetes?

In a nutshell, Docker is a suite of software development tools for creating, sharing and running individual containers; Kubernetes is a system for operating containerized applications at scale. Think of containers as standardized packaging for microservices with all the needed application code and dependencies inside.
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Can Docker run on ESXi?

Move some of your Docker workload over to a bare-metal setup using VMware ESXi, the oldest free, commercial hypervisor. Just imagine all the cheap cores at your disposal with a new AMD Ryzen-based server!
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Is container a virtual machine?

Containers are small, fast, and portable because, unlike a virtual machine, containers do not need to include a guest OS in every instance and can, instead, simply leverage the features and resources of the host OS.
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Can you run a VM in a container?

Again, the answer is absolutely yes. Running your application in a set of Docker containers doesn't preclude it from talking to the services running in a VM. For instance, your application may need to interact with a database that resides in a virtual machine.
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Is Docker based on Linux?

The Docker technology uses the Linux kernel and features of the kernel, like Cgroups and namespaces, to segregate processes so they can run independently.
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