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# Lesson 2: Introduction to Docker image builds
1. Clone this git repository.
1. Change directory into `lesson02`:
$ cd lesson02
1. Why are containers useful? What are their advantages over a
traditional server?
- containers are light
- containers are portable
- containers are isolated
- containers can be run "immutably"
- containers are built hierarchically
- developers can create applications without a full server-stack
1. What are some limitations of containers?
- interaction is more difficult for multiple containers than for
multiple server process (although Kubernetes helps)
- some overhead so not quite as fast as "bare-metal" processes
- there are several decades worth of server administration best practices
and tools but only a few years for containers
- not good for large tightly-integrated applications (e.g., Oracle database)
1. Question: what is the difference between an "image" and a "container"?
(See also [this Stackoverflow
question](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23735149/what-is-the-difference-between-a-docker-image-and-a-container)).
1. Most Docker images are build on top of existing "base" images. These
base containers are usually hosted in Docker Hub. For example, all Debian
releases come as Docker images; see https://hub.docker.com/_/debian for a
list of the base Debian Docker images.
1. Let's build a "Hello, world." Docker image. We will build it on a
Debian buster base. First, pull the Docker image:
$ docker pull debian:buster-slim
# We pull the "slim" image to save disk space
1. Here is an application that echos "Hello, world." and then exits (this
file is also in the current directory).
#!/bin/sh
echo "Hello, world."
exit 0
1. Now we create a "Dockerfile" that tells the build process how to create
the image. We use `debian:buster-slim` as the base and "add" the command
`run.sh`. The first argument of `ADD` is the *local* copy of the file and
the second argument is where we want the file to be in the image.
# Dockerfile
FROM debian:buster-slim
LABEL maintainer="adamhl@stanford.edu"
ADD run.sh /root/run.sh
1. We want to make sure that the script will run, so make it executable.
# Dockerfile
FROM debian:buster-slim
LABEL maintainer="adamhl@stanford.edu"
ADD run.sh /root/run.sh
RUN chmod a+x /root/run.sh
1. Docker containers must be told which command to run. We do this with
the `CMD` directive
# Dockerfile
FROM debian:buster-slim
LABEL maintainer="adamhl@stanford.edu"
ADD run.sh /root/run.sh
RUN chmod a+x /root/run.sh
CMD /root/run.sh
1. We are now ready to build the image:
$ docker build . -t hello-world
$ docker images | grep hello-world
1. Question: what is the purpose of `.` (dot) in the above `docker build`
command?
1. Note that the tag is `latest` (the default).
1. Let's run this image in a container:
$ docker run --rm hello-world
1. Did you see what you expected?