Databases on containers is going mainstream. A great way to get comfortable with Containers and exploring the difference between a more traditional DBMS to OS relationship is to install Podman on Linux , download some images and start learning. Podman is a daemonless, open source, Linux native for sharing and deploying applications using Open Containers Initiative (OCI) Containers and Container Images Some terminology: An image is a binary containing the requirements for running a single container. Metadata is included to describe various needs The basic unit of Podman apps are termed as containers. Containers isolate the running processes , and... Read more →