Docker
Docker is an open source platform that enables developers and system administrators to create, deploy, and run applications in containers. Containers allow software to be packaged along with all its dependencies (such as libraries, configurations, etc.) and run consistently across different environments, whether it’s a developer’s laptop, a test server, or a production machine.
Containers can then be viewed as virtual machines, allowing for reduced overhead and better utilization of resources and the system itself (especially if we have to use a single model on several systems). The idea is that our software (of which our model or an LLM plus agents is a component) can run in isolation to prevent problems from arising that impact its execution and performance. The use of virtual machines is an example of how a system can run in a guest operating system (OS) and use resources. Optimizing a system for a guest OS, however, requires considerable resources. Containers...
