Building the App Image

Now that we’ve written the Dockerfile, it’s time to build our image! To do that, we will use the docker build command.

In the same directory that your Dockerfile is in, you can run the following:

docker build -t <dockerhub-username>/<image-name>:<tag> .

• -t lets us specify the tag name for this image.

• dockerhub-username is pretty self-explanatory.

• image-name is the name for our image. It will also be the name of the image repository in DockerHub.

• tag can be a version number or other identifying label to help you differentiate this image from previous iterations. If you leave this blank, the tag name will default to latest.

I will be calling this image cagancayco/chickweight:latest. Simply replace cagancayco with your own username.