In the previous section, we discussed how Docker works and how it can be used to deploy containers. As previously stated, Docker uses the Docker daemon, which helps us to achieve all this. What if we say people have started bidding goodbye to Docker? Yes, with the introduction of next-generation container management tools, Docker is fading away. We are not saying that Docker is completely out of the picture, but in time it will be replaced by rootless or daemonless Linux container tools. You read it right: there is no daemon running for these tools, and the approach of using the monolith daemon is coming to an end. No wonder people have started calling the containers deployed using these tools "Dockerless containers."

History

You might wonder when this all happened. Back in 2015, Docker Inc. and CoreOS, along with some other organizations, came up with the idea of the Open Container Initiative (OCI). The intention behind this was to standardize...