Dockerfiles are text files that are usually collocated with applications that instruct Docker on how to build a new Docker image. Through the creation of those files, you have the ability to tell Docker which Docker image to start from, what to copy on the container filesystem, what network port to expose, and so on. You can find the full documentation of the Dockerfile at http://dockr.ly/2jmoZMw. We are going to create a Dockerfile for our Hello World application, at the root of the helloworld project that we created in our GitHub repository, using the following commands:
$ cd helloworld$ touch Dockerfile
The first instruction of a Dockerfile is always a FROM instruction. This tells Docker which Docker image to start ...
