The following topics are covered in this chapter:
- This chapter helps developers understand various commands and options available while building Windows Server Containers.
- Docker command line or PowerShell versions (yet to be released) communicate with a common API called Docker Remote API.
- Docker Hub is the public repository for storing Windows Server images (and Linux-based images too). Docker Hub provides one private repository for free. For better security users can also host their own private repositories.
- Users can start Windows Server Container development by using any existing image on Docker Hub as base image; a few examples are
microsoft/windowsservercore
,microsoft/redis
,microsoft/iis
, and so on. - A Docker image is made up of layers. Each layer has a unique ID.
docker pull
can be used to download images from Docker Hub or any remote repository to Docker host. The Docker daemon does not download the layers that are already present on the host.- A new Windows Server image can be...