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Docker images and containers - Docker Tutorial
From the course: Docker for Windows
Docker images and containers
- [Instructor] When it comes to using Docker containers you must first understand what Docker images are. So let's talk briefly about Docker images and Docker containers. A Docker image is a packaged application that's ready to be run as a container. So if you think about downloading an application from, for example, the Apple or the Microsoft App Store, to your local desktop, you can think of that as an image. You download the image of that application, which is packaged up kind of like a zip file, or a Microsoft MSI installer, for example. And then when you run that application, you can think of that as the container. In other words, images are executable packages that include the application code, the runtime, the libraries, the variables, and the configuration files that you need to execute or run the application. The image, once it's run, is referred to as a container. That's the executed or running image. So you can think of an image as a downloaded container or a container on…
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