- [Narrator] Now that you understand which edition of Docker
you'll be using, either Community or Enterprise,
it's important to understand the platform
that you'll be installing it on.
We said that Docker Community Edition can run
either on MacOS X or on the Windows 10 Operating System.
However, if you're going to use Docker in production,
you're going to want to use Docker Enterprise Edition.
Docker Enterprise edition runs on
Azure, Cent OS, IBM Power, IBM Z series
as well as AWS, Oracle Linux, Ubuntu
and Red Hat Enterprise Linux or RHEL as it's known.
So how do you choose?
Well there's a few considerations
when it comes to selecting a platform
to run Docker on specifically in production.
You need to ask yourself is this prod or dev.
Either one of those are going to have
very different platform selection criteria.
What type of application do you need to run?
Is this a small website
or is this a massive E-commerce site?
Do you want to run Docker in the public cloud
or do you have reasons for running Docker specifically
in you on premises data center?
Do you have Scalability and agility requirements
that would require you to use the public cloud
or is this going to be a relatively static
Docker installation for a relatively static application.
Would you like to use pay-as-you-go pricing
in the public cloud or utility-based pricing
as it's sometimes called, or do you prefer
a fixed base price model.
Where you purchase some set of servers,
the Docker licenses and you run Docker
in your on-premises data center.
And then what's your comfort level with Linux
versus Windows, and are the applications
you're wanting to run in containers
Linux-based containers or Windows-based containers?
When selecting a platform to run Docker on,
you need to take all of these questions into consideration.
Much more detailed information for Docker platform
compatibility can be found
in their Docker compatibility matrix
over at success.docker.com.
In this document you'll find the exact details
for every OS distribution and edition of Docker.
Also what's important to note that at hub.docker.com
all of the different platform distributions
of Docker Enterprise can be downloaded directly from here.
In fact in this course, we'll be working
with Docker Enterprise running on Ubuntu.
It's here that you can start a one-month trail
of the Docker Enterprise platform.