Currently I’m planning to dockerize some web applications but I didn’t find a reasonably easy way do create the images to be hosted in my repository so I can pull them on my server.
What I currently have is:
- A local computer with a directory where the application that I want to dockerize is located
- A “docker server” running Portainer without shell/ssh access
- A place where I can upload/host the Docker images and where I can pull the images from on the “Docker server”
- Basic knowledge on how to write the needed
Dockerfile
What I now need is a sane way to build the images WITHOUT setting up a fully featured Docker environment on the local computer.
Ideally something where I can build the images and upload them but without that something “littering Docker-related files all over my system”.
Something like a VM that resets on every start maybe? So … build the image, upload to repository, close the terminal window, and forget that anything ever happened.
What is YOUR solution to create and upload Docker images in a clean and sane way?
When I built an image last time there were several unused other images with just hashes as names and two unused volumes, also multiple cache files and other files in the user’s home directory in various subfolders.
It’s very possible they weren’t unused.
Docker builds their images out of layers, and all the layers are used during runtime!:
https://sweetcode.io/understanding-docker-image-layers/
The idea is that you can essentially change PARTS of an image, without rebuilding it entirely, which saves space and bandwidth.