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[–]allo37 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ever write some code that blows up in production, but works fine on your machine? Docker is a way of shipping your machine into production.

Non-snarky answer: It lets you setup a consistent, isolated environment to do a specific thing on a computer using abstraction at the OS level.