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Learning Docker

You're reading from   Learning Docker Optimize the power of Docker to run your applications quickly and easily

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784397937
Length 240 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Docker 2. Handling Docker Containers FREE CHAPTER 3. Building Images 4. Publishing Images 5. Running Your Private Docker Infrastructure 6. Running Services in a Container 7. Sharing Data with Containers 8. Orchestrating Containers 9. Testing with Docker 10. Debugging Containers 11. Securing Docker Containers Index

Working with Docker images

In the previous chapter, we demonstrated the typical Hello World! example by using a busybox image. Now there is a need for a close observation of the output of the docker pull subcommand, which is a standard command for downloading the Docker images. You would have noticed the presence of the busybox:latest text in the output text, and we will explain this mystery in a detailed manner by bringing in a small twist to the docker pull subcommand by adding the -a option, as shown here:

$ sudo docker pull -a busybox

Surprisingly, you will observe that the Docker engine downloads a few more images with the -a option. You can easily check the images that are available on the Docker host by running the docker images subcommand, which comes in handy, and it reveals more details with respect to :latest and the additional images that are downloaded by running this command. Let us run this command:

$ sudo docker images

You will get the list of images, as follows:

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