A lightweight, isolated environment that packages everything needed to run an app — code, runtime, and settings.
A container (in DevOps) is a running instance of a Docker image — not to be confused with CSS layout containers. Docker containers are lightweight (faster to start than virtual machines), standalone (include everything to run), and portable (run the same everywhere). Containers isolate your app from the host system.
You can run many containers simultaneously. Each container has its own filesystem, environment variables, and network settings. Containers start in milliseconds. Edge Functions run in isolated containers. Node.js apps are commonly containerized for Deployment.
Containers are how modern apps are deployed. Kubernetes orchestrates containers, managing scaling, updates, and failures. Understanding containers is essential for cloud development.
A container is built from instructions in a Dockerfile, which specifies how to create a Production Build and which Port the app listens on.
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