What Linux does Docker use?

The Docker platform runs natively on Linux (on x86-64, ARM and many other CPU architectures) and on Windows (x86-64). Docker Inc. builds products that let you build and run containers on Linux, Windows and macOS.

Does Docker have its own OS?

Docker does not has an OS in its containers. In simple terms, a docker container image just has a kind of filesystem snapshot of the linux-image the container image is dependent on. … Docker behind the scene uses the host OS which is linux itself to run its containers.