AI engineering glossary · Computing foundations
What is container?
Container: A lightweight isolated environment that packages an application with its libraries and settings and shares the host's operating system kernel. It starts quickly and behaves consistently across machines.
Container: an example
A Python app packaged with its exact library versions runs the same on a developer laptop and on a server.
Related terms
More Computing foundations terms
- Content delivery network
- Context switch
- Coordinated Universal Time
- CPU core
- CUDA
- Daemon
- Data center
- Data compression
Where you learn it
Container is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.