Chapter 2: Building Container Images
In this chapter, you will start building container images. We will look at five different ways you can define and build images using native Docker tools.
We will discuss the recommended ways that you can define and build your own images, as well as one way that is not considered to be a best practice but does have its uses.
We will cover the following topics:
- Introducing Dockerfiles
- Building Docker images
Let’s get started!
Technical requirements
In this chapter, we will be using our Docker installation to build images. Some of the supporting commands, which will be few and far between, may only be applicable to macOS and Linux-based operating systems.
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