The Deep Dive
Explore the fundamental concepts of Docker images and containers in this lesson. Learn how images represent build-time constructs, containers runtime environments, and how to manage them effectively. Understand best practices for creating slim images and the distinctions between Linux-based and Windows-based images to optimize your container deployments.
We'll cover the following...
We'll cover the following...
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 ...