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An expert posted an excellent response to my last question stating that a Docker is primarily used to have a disk image of the entire OS &nbsp;in order to contain all of the dependencies within a single image and then it can be transported to an IaaS (or other) environment for deployment<br />
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I assume most apps are sent within some &nbsp;sort of Linux system, so would that cause a a depenency upon the Linux version and provider. &nbsp;If the Docker is CentOS, and the host is Debian, is it still possible to run the docker?
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An expert posted an excellent response to my last question stating that a Docker is primarily used to have a disk image of the entire OS  in order to contain all of the dependencies within a single image and then it can be transported to an IaaS (or other) environment for deployment

I assume most apps are sent within some  sort of Linux system, so would that cause a a depenency upon the Linux version and provider.  If the Docker is CentOS, and the host is Debian, is it still possible to run the docker?

Dockerization and host OS

Linux is a UNIX-like open source operating system with hundreds of distinct distributions, including: Fedora, openSUSE, Ubuntu, Debian, Slackware, Gentoo, CentOS, and Arch Linux. Linux is generally associated with web and database servers, but has become popular in many niche industries and applications.