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Docker Deep Dive - Fifth Edition
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Docker Deep Dive - Fifth Edition

by Nigel Poulton
May 2025
Intermediate to advanced
308 pages
6h 1m
English
Packt Publishing
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6: Working with Images

This chapter is a dive deep into Docker images. You’ll learn what images are, how to work with them, and how they work under the hood. You’ll learn how to build your own in Chapter 8: Containerizing an application.

I’ve arranged the chapter as follows:

  • Docker images – The TLDR
  • Intro to images
  • Pulling images
  • Image registries
  • Image naming and tagging
  • Images and layers
  • Pulling images by digest
  • Multi-architecture images
  • Vulnerability scanning with Docker Scout
  • Deleting images

Docker images – The TLDR

Before getting started, all of the following terms mean the same thing, and we’ll use them interchangeably: Image, Docker image, container image, and OCI image.

An image is a read-only package containing everything you need ...

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ISBN: 9781806024032