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Docker Quick Start Guide

By : Earl Waud
Book Image

Docker Quick Start Guide

By: Earl Waud

Overview of this book

Docker is an open source software platform that helps you with creating, deploying, and running your applications using containers. This book is your ideal introduction to Docker and containerization. You will learn how to set up a Docker development environment on a Linux, Mac, or Windows workstation, and learn your way around all the commands to run and manage your Docker images and containers. You will explore the Dockerfile and learn how to build your own enterprise-grade Docker images. Then you will learn about Docker networks, Docker swarm, and Docker volumes, and how to use these features with Docker stacks in order to define, deploy, and maintain highly-scalable, fault-tolerant multi-container applications. Finally, you will learn how to leverage Docker with Jenkins to automate the building of Docker images and the deployment of Docker containers. By the end of this book, you will be well prepared when it comes to using Docker for your next project.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

The Docker image build command

OK, so the image build command is not a Dockerfile instruction. Instead, it is the docker command that is used to turn your Dockerfile into a docker image. The Docker image build command sends the docker build context, including the Dockerfile, to the docker daemon, which parses the Dockerfile and builds the image layer by layer. We will discuss the build context shortly, but for now, consider it to be everything that is needed to build the Docker image based on the content found in the Dockerfile. The build command syntax is as follows:

# Docker image build command syntax
Usage: docker image build [OPTIONS] PATH | URL | -

There are many options for the image build command. We will not be covering all of the options now, but let's take a look at a few of the most common:

# Common options used with the image build command
--rm Remove intermediate...