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Can some one explain the difference between the two, which contains the docker runtime?
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Docker Engine is the core product of Docker, including its daemon (dockerd) as well as its CLI (docker). Docker Daemon is simply a part of Docker Engine. Quoting the Docker engine overview page: Docker Engine is an open source containerization technology for building and containerizing your applications.
Docker Engine is an open source containerization technology for building and containerizing your applications. Docker Engine acts as a client-server application with: A server with a long-running daemon process dockerd . APIs which specify interfaces that programs can use to talk to and instruct the Docker daemon.
The Docker daemon ( dockerd ) listens for Docker API requests and manages Docker objects such as images, containers, networks, and volumes. A daemon can also communicate with other daemons to manage Docker services.
Docker Engine was initially developed for Linux systems, but with version updates extended to operate natively on both Windows and Apple OSes. Docker Machine is a tool to install and manage Docker Engine on several virtual hosts or older versions of Apple and Windows OSes.
Docker Engine is the core product of Docker, including its daemon (dockerd) as well as its CLI (docker). Docker Daemon is simply a part of Docker Engine.
Quoting the Docker engine overview page:
Docker Engine is an open source containerization technology for building and containerizing your applications. Docker Engine acts as a client-server application with:
- A server with a long-running daemon process dockerd.
- APIs which specify interfaces that programs can use to talk to and instruct the Docker daemon.
- A command line interface (CLI) client docker.
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