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Learn about Dockerfiles

Learn about Dockerfiles

- [Instructor] Let's talk about Docker and Docker files. Docker is not the only container technology today. Others include the LXC Linux containers. But Docker is the most popular and most widely used. Docker is freely available to download and installed on various operating systems. Writing a Docker file is the first step to containerize an application who could think of the Docker file as a step by step process or recipe on building a Docker image. A Docker container can then be run from that image. If you have written Python or Bash scripts before, it is very similar to the Docker file in the way that they're structure in its readability and the step by step process. The build process are generally stated from broad to more specific. Let's take a look at an example. I have already installed Docker on this Linux machine, we could check the version of Docker with Docker dash dash version. We could also find the available…

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