Virtualization & Containers

Docker is an incredibly powerful tool for containerization, but beyond the basics, there are advanced techniques and best practices that can enhance your container management and development workflows. This guide highlights some advanced Docker concepts to take your skills to the next level. 1. Multi-Stage Builds Why? Reduce image size and keep production images clean. Multi-stage builds allow you to use intermediate stages to build or compile applications and then copy only the necessary artifacts into the final image. Example: # Stage 1: Build the application FROM node:16 AS build WORKDIR /app COPY package*.json ./ RUN npm install COPY . . RUN npm run…