Docker — Image creation and Management

Bhargav Bachina
Bachina Labs
Published in
5 min readFeb 25, 2019

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Image creation and management

Docker is a platform where developers can run, develop and deploy container-based applications. we have images and containers in docker world. An image is an executable package that includes everything needed to run an application — the code, a runtime, libraries, environment variables, and configuration files. A Container is the running instance of the image means you can create as many containers as possible from a single image.

This article is all about Images.

Once you install docker you can check the version, info with the following commands just to make sure you installed correctly.

docker --version
docker info

Agenda

  • where to start
  • pulling images from docker hub
  • Listing images
  • Image History
  • Inspecting image
  • Creating an Image
  • Dockerfile
  • Removing images
  • Sharing images
  • Pushing Images

Where to start

Once you install docker in your machine, the first thing you could do is create an image or pull an image from the docker hub so that you can run the containers out of it.

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