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- :title: Docker Documentation
- :description: An overview of the Docker Documentation
- :keywords: containers, lxc, concepts, explanation
- 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.
- 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>`
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