Docker Containers: Build and Deploy with Kubernetes, Flannel, Cockpit, and Atomic

Chapter 12. Building Docker Images

In This Chapter:

Build a simple Docker container image

Use Dockerfile instructions

Learn tips to build images more efficiently

Although you can create Docker images by adding software to a running container and committing it to an image (docker commit), the preferred way to create Docker images is with the docker build command. The file you create to hold the instructions for building a Docker image is literally ...