What is the difference between the Docker Engine and Docker Daemon?

Question

What is the difference between the Docker Engine and Docker Daemon?

Answer 1

The differences between the Docker Engine and Docker Daemon are as follows:-

Let’s see Docker engine first:-

• Docker engine also known as Docker, is a client server application that builds and executes containers using Docker components.

• The medium of communication between Docker Client and Docker Daemon is REST API.

• For the older version of Windows and Mac systems Docker toolbox is used with the following features:

Now let's have a look at Docker daemon:

• It is a server which interacts with the operating system and performs all kinds of services.

• To perform the operations Docker Daemon listens for REST API request.

• To start a Docker Daemon a command dockerd is used.

• To run the Docker Daemon and Registry Docker Host is used.

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