The Deep Dive

Learn about Docker images, their relationship with containers, and the difference between Linux and Windows images.

Images and containers

We’ve already said that images are like stopped containers. We can even stop a container and create a new image from it. With this in mind, images are build-time constructs, whereas containers are runtime constructs. The figure below illustrates the build and run characteristics of each, and it shows that we can start multiple containers from a single image.

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