Docker Features

Docker CLI

The most powerful interface to interact with Docker Containers. It is a simple command line Interface tool which integrates with Cmd Prompt and PowerShell in Windows and with default terminal in Linux based Operating System.

Syntax : docker [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARG...]

Integrated BuildKit

BuildKit is a open source tool which takes instructions from "Dockerfile" and build "Docker image.

Note: BuildKit only supports for building Linux containers

Powered by Containerd

Docker is built on leading Container Runtime known as Containerd which is available for Windows and Linux as Daemon.

Note: Daemon is long running program, which actually manages complete life-cycle of containers on host system.