Glossary term
What is Container?
In Apex Flow Academy, "Container" means: A packaged app with everything it needs, so it runs the same way on any computer that can run containers. It is taught in AWS Cloud Basics: Understand the Cloud and Build a Small Live Setup and Docker and Kubernetes for Beginners. Related terms include Serverless, Amazon S3 bucket, Spot Instance and Storage class.
- 2 courses teach it
- plain-word definition
The facts
What is Container?
A packaged app with everything it needs, so it runs the same way on any computer that can run containers. (From AWS Cloud Basics: Understand the Cloud and Build a Small Live Setup. 1 other course defines it for their own subject, so each definition follows.)
What does Container mean in AWS Cloud Basics: Understand the Cloud and Build a Small Live Setup?
A packaged app with everything it needs, so it runs the same way on any computer that can run containers.
AWS Cloud Basics: Understand the Cloud and Build a Small Live Setup
What does Container mean in Docker and Kubernetes for Beginners?
A box that holds an app and everything it needs to run. It runs as an isolated process on your computer.
Where is Container taught?
Container is defined in AWS Cloud Basics: Understand the Cloud and Build a Small Live Setup and Docker and Kubernetes for Beginners.
AWS Cloud Basics: Understand the Cloud and Build a Small Live SetupDocker and Kubernetes for Beginners
Which lessons cover Container?
These lessons name it in their title or objectives:
- AWS Cloud Basics: Understand the Cloud and Build a Small Live Setup, lesson 4.3: Serverless and containers: code without server chores
- Docker and Kubernetes for Beginners, lesson 1.1: What a Container Is and What You Will Build
- Docker and Kubernetes for Beginners, lesson 1.2: Install a Free Container Engine
- Docker and Kubernetes for Beginners, lesson 1.3: Run Your First Containers
- Docker and Kubernetes for Beginners, lesson 1.4: Images, Tags and Registries
Which terms are related to Container?
Next to Container in the course glossaries: Serverless, Amazon S3 bucket, Spot Instance, Storage class, Savings Plan, Block, file and object storage, AMI, Relational database, Image and Registry.
ServerlessAmazon S3 bucketSpot InstanceStorage classSavings PlanBlock, file and object storageAMIRelational databaseImageRegistry
The hard questions, answered straight
Bold questions people really ask. Each answer comes from the course data or a settled Academy fact.
Do I need experience before I learn Container?
It depends on the course. Each course that teaches it lists its own prerequisites, and all are listed at beginner level:
- AWS Cloud Basics: Understand the Cloud and Build a Small Live Setup: No cloud, coding or IT experience is needed.
- Docker and Kubernetes for Beginners: You can open a terminal (PowerShell, Command Prompt, Terminal or a Linux shell) and run simple commands such as cd and ls or dir.