If you have your ear even slightly to the ground of the software community, you’ll have heard of Docker. Having recently enjoyed a tremendous rise in popularity, it continues to attract users… ...

The container is connected to the host filesystem the same way at each stage, so you can re-use source code or versioned artifacts pulled from Git, Nexus or other repositories without making changes ...

The deal with Docker was inked a few months back. Now Microsoft describes how to create a Docker VM that hosts any number of containers for your apps running in Azure.