What is a container image?

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Containers are a critical part of today’s IT operations. A container image contains a packaged application, along with its dependencies, and information on what processes it runs when launched.

You create container images by providing a set of specially formatted instructions, either as commits to a registry or as a Dockerfile. For example, this Dockerfile creates a container for a PHP web application:

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