With plenty of documentation, thousands of container images, and a solid ecosystem, Docker is the most popular container runtime in the home lab community. That said, it’s far from the only platform ...

Docker uses a persistent background service, dockerd, to manage container lifecycles. The CLI communicates with this daemon, which supervises container creation, networking, and resource allocation.

Thanks to their low resource consumption and solid isolation facilities, I’ve been relying on containers extensively for the last couple of months. In fact, I’ve got different container runtimes and ...