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