Docker provides multiple commands to learn about its images in a textual format. However, a picture is worth a thousand words, so it is imperative that we can visualize the image hierarchy through graphs. While Docker doesn't support any image visualization tool, numerous solutions are available to visualize the image hierarchy. In this recipe, we will visualize the image hierarchy using a nate/dockviz container and Graphviz.
Visualizing the image hierarchy
Getting ready
Before we begin, we need one or more Docker images on the host to be running a Docker daemon. We also need to ensure that Graphviz is installed.
