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Glossary
- Container
- Computing technology which allows application code, data, dependencies, and configurations to be packaged into a single object that can be deployed in any environment (CODATA RDM Terminology)
- An instance of a specific container image.
- Docker
- A specific software used to create, run, and manage containers. Docker, Inc. is the name of the company that created the Docker software.
- Guest
- The virtualized system that runs on a host system. This term is mainly used in the context of virtual machines. The equivalent term relative to containers is “container”.
- Host
- The system that runs the virtual machine or container management software.
- Image
- A file (or set of files) that contains the entirety of the operating system and associated dependencies needed to start a specific instance of a virtual machine or container. Images intended to be used in a virtualized or containerized environments are not interchangeable with each other.
- VirtualBox
- Open source software used to create, run, and manage virtual machines, owned by Oracle Corporation.
- Virtual machine
- A software-defined complete execution stack consisting of virtualized hardware, operating system (guest OS), and applications. (NIST)
- An instance of a specific virtual machine image.