Building images using APIs

In the previous recipe, we explored a few actions on Docker images using APIs. In this recipe, we will build a Docker image using the /build API. Here is the /build API snippet from Swagger Editor:

How to do it...

1. Begin by cloning the https://github.com/docker-cookbook/apache2 repository, as follows:

    $ git clone https://github.com/docker-cookbook/apache2  

This repository contains the Dockerfile to bundle an apache2 service; listed here is the content of the Dockerfile:

2. Let's create the build context by bundling the content of the cloned apache2 repository as a tar file, as demonstrated here:

        $ cd apache2
        $ tar cvf /tmp/apache2.tar *  

3. Continue on to build the Docker...