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Docker – 3 Different Ways to Create Images

This article represents 3 different ways using which one could create a Docker image. Please feel free to comment/suggest if I missed to mention one or more important points. Also, sorry for the typos.

In the command below, hub-user is the name of your user account on http://hub.docker.com, repo-name is the repository name that you create and tag is the name you assign to specific image (e.g., dev, testing etc). Following are the different ways:

docker build -t <hub-user>/<repo-name>[:<tag>] -t <dockerfile> .
docker tag <existing-image> <hub-user>/<repo-name>[:<tag>]. The “existing-image” uis the name of image which already exists in your local repository.
docker commit <exiting-container> <hub-user>/<repo-name>[:<tag>]. This command is handy when you have built a container as you go and later wanted to build an image based on this container.

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I have been recently working in the area of Data analytics including Data Science and Machine Learning / Deep Learning. I am also passionate about different technologies including programming languages such as Java/JEE, Javascript, Python, R, Julia, etc, and technologies such as Blockchain, mobile computing, cloud-native technologies, application security, cloud computing platforms, big data, etc. I would love to connect with you on Linkedin. Check out my latest book titled as First Principles Thinking: Building winning products using first principles thinking.