Labs On Docker
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, JNEC Aurangabad​.
Palash Khaire`, Akshay Saswadkar`, Rajesh Jaybhaye`, Abhilash Ghope`,
Atul Dusane``
Abstract: ​The need for shipping application
to labs is becoming very important in
schools and colleges as it saves time and
effort. Docker Lab is a system that ship
containers from one Linux based machine
to another, without worrying about any
dependencies. It means that application
created and packaged into a container with
docker and then deployed it on a Linux
Environment.
Keywords: ​Docker, Linux (OS), MySQL,
Shell scripting, Containers, Apache2, VM.
I. INTRODUCTION
Docker ​Docker is an open-source engine
that automates the deployment of
applications into containers. Containers
provide an isolated environment akin to
virtualization, but without virtual hardware
emulation. Docker is developed by Docker,
Inc., which was previously known as
dotCloud, Inc. that was one of the
pioneering company
Platform-as-a-service market. Docker
provides an isolated container based on a
major Linux kernel feature known as
cgroups and namespace. Consequently,
each container can have strong isolation,
own network stack, storage stack, file
system and resource management
capabilities to allow friendly co-existence
of multiple containers on a single host. A
container does not have its own operating
system as it shares the same kernel;
however, it contains all binaries and
libraries to run an application inside it.. In a
way, Docker is a bit like a virtual machine.
But unlike a virtual machine, rather than
creating a whole virtual operating system,
Docker allows applications to use the same
Linux kernel as the system that they're
running on and only requires applications
be shipped with things not already running
on the host computer. This gives a
significant performance boost and reduces
the size of the application. And
importantly, Docker is ​open source ​. This
means that anyone can contribute to
Docker and extend it to meet their own
needs if they need additional features that
aren't available out of the box. Docker is a
tool that is designed to benefit both
developers and system administrators,
making it a part of many DevOps
in
(developers + operations) toolchains. For
developers, it means that they can focus on
writing code without worrying about the
system that it will ultimately be running on.
It also allows them to get a head start by
using one of the thousands of programs
already designed to run in a Docker
container as a part of their application. For
operations staff, Docker gives flexibility
and potentially reduces the number of
systems needed because of its small
footprint and lower overhead.
Docker Container: ​Docker Container is a
standardized unit which can be created on
the fly to deploy a particular application or
environment. It could be an Ubuntu
container, CentOs container, etc. to full-fill
the requirement from an operating system
point of view. A container is a standard
unit of software that packages up the code
and all its dependencies so the application
runs quickly and reliably from one
computing environment to another. A
Docker container image is a lightweight,
standalone, executable package of software
that includes everything needed to run an
application: code, runtime, system tools,
system libraries, and settings.
Container images become containers at
runtime and in the case of Docker
containers - images become containers
when they run on ​Docker Engine​.
Available for both Linux and
Windows-based applications, containerized
software will always run the same,
regardless of the infrastructure. Containers
isolate software from its environment and
ensure that it works uniformly despite
differences for instance between
development and staging.
Docker containers that run on Docker
Engine:
● Standard: Docker created the
industry standard for containers,
so they could be portable
anywhere
● Lightweight: Containers share the
machine’s OS system kernel and
therefore do not require an OS
per application, driving higher
server efficiencies and reducing
server and licensing costs
● Secure: Applications are safer in
containers and Docker provides
the strongest default isolation
capabilities in the industry
II. LITERATURE SURVEY
Docker is a container virtualization
technology. So, it’s like a very lightweight
virtual machine [VM]. In addition to
building containers, they provide what they
call a developer work, which is really about
helping people build containers and
applications inside containers and then
share those among their teammates.
The container-based virtualization doesn't
require each guest to run a completely
installed operating system. This
virtualization approach also helps to
improve performance since there is a single
operating system taking care of all hardware
calls. The disadvantage of container-based
virtualization is that each guest must use the
same operating system the host uses.
For an ordinary VM which is running on a
hypervisor(Type-1, Type-2), not only it
contains applications and necessary
libraries and binaries but also an entire
copy of guest OS. This makes VMs to be

Fig. container vs VM
of several GBs. On the contrary, Docker
eliminates hypervisor and guest OS layer,
even the libraries can be shared by
different applications running on top of it.
This makes Docker a very lightweight
VM and easy to deploy in less time
Basically, it creates portable packages of
applications and its dependencies. The
packages are called container images and
it can be published to a container
repository called Docker Hub so that it
can be spawned and executed on any
other machine having Docker engine.
Docker uses union file system where
layers of a file system are built up. Only
the specific changes added to the parent
image are saved. Hence, the size of the
image is very less(few KBs to MBs). As a
result, publishing an image becomes very
lightweight and takes only a few seconds.
Also, spawning this image and getting the
exact replica of VM takes only a few
seconds whereas ordinary VM cloning
takes up to a few minutes.
III. BENEFITS OF
CONTAINER BASED
VIRTUALIZATION
Container-based virtualization improves
performance and efficiency compared to
conventional hypervisor since additional
resources needed for each OS is
eliminated. In the scenario when a single
operating system is required, the
container-based virtualization is the best
fit. multiple instances of an operating
system and it does not duplicate
functionality. Each container instance
runs in a completely isolated secure
environment.
Container-based virtualization is more
resource efficient since all applications
run on top of the same kernel and
instances are smaller and faster to create
or migrate. It means a single system can
potentially host more containers than
VMs but it limits the flexibility and
choice of your operating systems. And a
single OS creates the situation of a single
point of failure for all of the containers.
Forex- a virus attack or crash of host OS
can impact all of the containers.
IV. BENEFITS OF DOCKER
CONTAINERS
Docker is a container technology which
makes it easy to package and distribute
software along with its other
dependencies. It makes shipping of
software code easy to staging or
production or any other environment.
Docker is written in Go, an open source
programming language created in 2007 at
Google by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike,
and Ken Thompson. The developer
community is working aggressively on
Docker API which has 15 revisions made
so far in the past 1.5 years.
A​. Application Portability Docker puts all
application dependencies in a container
which is portable on different platforms.
The distributed applications can be built,
move and run using containers. The
application developers and administrators
can run the same application on laptops,
VMs or cloud by automating deployment
inside containers.
B. Docker is lightweight and fast
Containers are lightweight and fast
compared to Virtual Machine(VM) since
VMs boot an entire operating system to
start and consume resource as each VM
has to run a full OS instance. However,
starting a container is just like starting a
process.
C. Optimal resource utilization Docker
allows to allocate and limit CPU,
memory, network and disk resources to all
the process using Linux's Control Groups.
It ensures that one process is not taking
over all of the computer resources and
starving the other processes.
V. PROPOSED SYSTEM
All web clients communicate with HTML
front end site providing the login page and
registration page. New users need to
register for accessing the websites. After
registering, the credentials matched from
the database of clients will be redirected
to the home or welcome page where they
will have links for the containerized
applications through which they can
choose the specific link for accessing the
containers and can use the containers as
per their use. One admin panel will be
added for the website where one can just
check the details of users registered,
people accessing the containers and all.
One administrative container will be
provided for the admin on the server side
to graphically manage the containers
running from where containers can be
started stopped with one click only. The
data that they will be saving, will be
saving in the server’s hard disk where the
containers are running and mounted. After
using the container, it will get destroyed
and all the contents you save will be
deleted. As containers are isolated in
nature. So the containers (GCC,
Netbeans) will be running on the server
side, which can be directly accessed by
the website provided.
VI. DIFFERENT MODULES
This consists of mainly 2 modules. They
are the frontend website and the backend
server where the containers are running on
the servers which, the website comprises
of registration page and login page, the
registration page has various details
required for the registration and one
unique identification is kept as a college
registration number (6 digits). The same
will be required for logging in the website
for further use. The website is hosted
using apache2 on Debian based Linux OS.
The site can be accessed by the IP
address of the server, so the same can be
accessed by any user in the network. This
helps in the effective use of the website
and the containers. The website is
connected to a database on the backend
for storing the details of registered people
and for logging in the website again with
the same details. The database is
connected to the website using Xampp for
its connectivity. The second module is the
server where containers are running in the
background where Docker is configured
and all the container images are stored in
the server. After logging in the site, it will
redirect to Welcome page, from where
application residing in containers can be
used just by clicking on it. All the data
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