The Deep Dive

A deep dive into the Docker 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 run-time constructs. The figure below shows the build and run nature of each, and we can start multiple containers from a single image.

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