Glossary
Term | Definition |
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Container | A running instance of an image |
Host Computer | The computer you are using, i.e. the host runs a container from an image |
Image | A file that contains pre-built software; also called container image |
Registry | An online place to store and retrieve images |
Tag | An identifier of a particular version of an image, e.g. latest |
URI | Uniform Resource Identifier, which points to an image on a registry |