Chapter 7. Packaging software in images
This chapter covers
- Manual image construction and practices
- Images from a packaging perspective
- Working with flat images
- Image versioning best practices
The goal of this chapter is to help you understand the concerns of image design, learn the tools for building images, and discover advanced image patterns. You will accomplish these things by working through a thorough real-world example. Before getting started, you should have a firm grasp on the concepts in part 1 of this book.
You can create a Docker image by either modifying an existing image inside a container or defining and executing a build script called a Dockerfile. This chapter focuses on the process of manually changing an image, the ...
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