Terms and components

Common terms that are used throughout.

Accesser Container: A Container that uses the Accesser software.
Appliance Container: A Container that uses either the Accesser or Manager software.
Container: A running instance of a Docker image, representing a virtual environment.
Docker: A collection of tools that are used to deploy, run, and monitor applications that are running inside Linux Containers. See the Docker web site, for more information.
Image: In Docker, an image is composed of a file system archive and metadata used to describe the file system archive. The docker run command starts a Container from a base image, where the image remains unmodified.
Manager Container: A Container that uses the Manager software.