Docker Cookbook - Second Edition

How to do it...

Run the nate/dockviz container by supplying images --dot as a command-line argument and pipe the output to the dot (Graphviz) command, as shown in the following code, to generate the image hierarchy:

    $ docker run --rm \
                 -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
                 nate/dockviz \
                 images --dot  | dot -Tpng -o images-graph.png

The following is a graphic view of the images in the Docker host:

Here, in the graphic view, nodes with <missing> are layers within an image.