Docker Cookbook - Second Edition

How to do it...

Perform the following steps:

1. Run the following command inside the directory where we created the Dockerfile to build the image:

        $ docker image build . 

In the preceding setup, we did not specify any repository and tag name while building the image. It is always recommended that you build the image with a repository name for easy reference in the future.

2. Now, let's proceed to create our own repository name using the -t option of the docker image build command, as follows:

        $ docker image build -t sample .   

If you compare ...