Deployment with Docker

Dockerfile commands

The following list is a similar one, but this time, we are covering the commands you can use in a Dockerfile, and we've arranged it in an order similar to the one you would use when working within the Dockerfile:

FROM <image_name>[:<tag>]: Base the current image on <image_name> LABEL <key>=<value> [<key>=value>...]: Add metadata to the image EXPOSE <port>: Indicate which port should be mapped into the container WORKDIR <path>: Set the current directory for the following commands RUN <command> [ && <command>... ]: Execute one or more shell commands ENV <name>=<value>: Set an environment variable to a specific value VOLUME <path>: Indicates that the <path> should be externally mounted volume COPY <src> <dest>: Copy a local ...