Dockerfile reference. Estimated reading time: 81 minutes. A Dockerfile is a text document that contains all the commands a user could call on the command line to assemble an image.

Optimized media, analytics and graphics software stack images. Use the dockerfile(s) in your project or as a recipe book for bare metal installation.

The Dockerfile uses a simple structure. While this simplicity is a good thing, it gives room for individuals to just hack commands together, without fully understanding the impact.

I am assuming that I can somehow create a local environment by calling this Dockerfile on my remote. Is this correct? If so how can I create the local instance pointing to the remote?

Dockerfiles. Each Dockerfile is a script, composed of various commands (instructions) and arguments listed successively to automatically perform actions on a base image in order to create (or form) a new...