Building an Image

Building your own image: writing a Dockerfile, running docker build, and naming the result with tags.

  • 6 cards
  • 3 questions
  • About 7 min
  • Beginner to Intermediate
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Producing your own image instead of running someone else's. You describe the image in a Dockerfile, build it with docker build, and name it with a tag, and those three steps are how any application ends up in a container. It covers what a Dockerfile is, the five instructions most Dockerfiles use, a complete build and run, what a tag really names, and why latest is not the newest image. It leaves out multi-stage builds and publishing to a registry.

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