Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook - Third Edition

Downloading a container

The docker pull command downloads a container from the Docker registry. By default, it pulls data from Docker's public registry at registry-1.docker.io. The downloaded container is added to your system. The containers are commonly stored under /var/lib/docker:

# docker pull lephare/apache
latest: Pulling from lephare/apache
425e28bb756f: Pull complete 
ce4a2c3907b1: Extracting [======================> ] 2.522 MB/2.522 MB
40e152766c6c: Downloading [==================>    ] 2.333 MB/5.416 MB
db2f8d577dce: Download complete 
Digest: sha256:e11a0f7e53b34584f6a714cc4dfa383cbd6aef1f542bacf69f5fccefa0108ff8
Status: Image is up to date for lephare/apache:latest