Building containers
Container images also represent binaries, since they contain the running application, including runtime and operating system binaries. In order to build container images, base images and all artifacts that are added at build time need to be present. If they don't already exist on the build environment, base images are retrieved implicitly.
For each build step defined in the Dockerfile, an image layer is added on top of the previous layer. Last but not least, the application that was built just before is added to the container image build. As shown previously, Java EE application containers consist of an installed and configured application server that auto-deploys the web archive at runtime.
This image build is orchestrated ...
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