![]() By collaborating closely with the Docker development team, Microsoft has installed several extensions into the Windows core, which enable Docker to start processes as containers in a sandbox without an abstracting hypervisor. Since September 2016, Docker EE has also been available natively for Windows Server 2016. Docker for Mac relies on the sleek hypervisor xhyve, but to create a runtime environment for the Docker engine and Linux kernel-specific functions for the Docker daemon, the hypervisor Hyper-V is available on Windows for the same purpose. In addition, Docker CE has been available as a native app for Windows and MacOS since the release of version 1.12. The platform provides support for various Linux distributions. The Docker container platform is distributed as a free Community Edition (CE), but there is also a fee-based Enterprise (EE) version available. A detailed description of the Docker platform and its basic components can be found in our Docker tutorial for beginners. This makes the lean container platform an attractive alternative to hypervisor-based virtualization. Docker relies on basic Linux kernel functions to shield processes from each other, and enables applications to run parallel in isolated containers using the self-developed runtime environment runC – without resource-intensive guest systems.
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