Chapter 3. Working with Docker Images
In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
- Creating an account with Docker Hub
- Creating an image from the container
- Publishing an image to the registry
- Looking at the history of an image
- Deleting an image
- Exporting an image
- Importing an image
- Building images using Dockerfiles
- Building an Apache image – a Dockerfile example
- Accessing Firefox from a container – a Dockerfile example
- Building a WordPress image – a Dockerfile example
- Setting up a private index/registry
- Automated Builds – with GitHub and Bitbucket
- Creating the base image – using supermin
- Creating the base image – using Debootstrap
- Visualizing dependencies between layers
Introduction
In this chapter, we will focus on operations relating to images. As we know, images are required to run containers. You can either use existing images or create new custom images. You will need to create custom images to suit your development and deployment environment...
