Chapter 3: Sharing Containers Using Docker Hub
In the previous chapter, we learned how to build a container and run it on our workstation using Docker. We used a Debian image as our starting point, but where did that image come from? The answer is that it came from Docker Hub. Docker Hub is the official container image library for Docker, run by the same folk who brought us Docker itself.
The container library contains the official images for numerous programs, servers, services, and so on that you might install within your own containers. For example, there are official images for various Linux distributions, versions of Node.js, versions of MySQL and MongoDB, and so on.
You can think of Docker Hub as being like GitHub. You can explore existing ...
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