Differnce betweej docker client and docker engine

Docker
#1

Requesting some one post a url which explain what is the difference between docker client and docker server as shown in the result below

docker version
Client: Docker Engine - Community
Version: 20.10.12
API version: 1.41
Go version: go1.16.12
Git commit: e91ed57
Built: Mon Dec 13 11:45:27 2021
OS/Arch: linux/amd64
Context: default
Experimental: true

Server: Docker Engine - Community
Engine:
Version: 20.10.12
API version: 1.41 (minimum version 1.12)
Go version: go1.16.12
Git commit: 459d0df
Built: Mon Dec 13 11:43:36 2021
OS/Arch: linux/amd64
Experimental: false
containerd:
Version: 1.4.12
GitCommit: 7b11cfaabd73bb80907dd23182b9347b4245eb5d
runc:
Version: 1.0.2
GitCommit: v1.0.2-0-g52b36a2
docker-init:
Version: 0.19.0
GitCommit: de40ad0

#2

Docker Engine is an open source containerization technology for building and containerizing your applications. Docker Engine acts as a client-server application with:

  • A server with a long-running daemon process dockerd.
  • APIs which specify interfaces that programs can use to talk to and instruct the Docker daemon.
  • A command line interface (CLI) client docker.

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#3

Would really appreciate if the team could clarify/comment on the 2 versions in the output in the lecture:
-Docker Training Course for the Absolute Beginner
---->Introduction
------ >Demo - Setup and Install Docker

In the output of docker version, you’ll see two main sections:

Client

This refers to the Docker CLI (Command-Line Interface) — the tool you interact with when you run Docker commands.

Server

This refers to the Docker daemon (also called dockerd) — the background service that actually runs containers.

#4

Docker is made up of two parts.

  1. Server - Runs as a operating system service and the program is called dockerd. Manages the running of containers. It listens for commands from the client.
  2. Client - This is what you use to tell the server to do things, and is the docker program that you type commands into.