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Documentation about Docker, the tool that is used to make the installation of OMS easier.

Docker, a quick introduction

Docker is a container management system, where a container is a way to run an application in a way that it seems like it would run in a virtual machine (vm), just with far less overhead. It's like as if you start a program with something like anti-sudo to give it the least permissions possible. Let's call this the running application container. Least possible means that it also can not access the filesystem (fs), which is why each container gets a virtual(ish) filesystem to write on. That file system lives as long as the container does, and as we called the running application container that container lives as long as the application is actually running.

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