Docker 101 Blog Series

Consolidating my Docker 101 blog series.

Docker 101 - Part1 - Installation

Docker 101 - Part2 - Basic operations

Docker 101 - Part3 - Persisting data using volumes

Docker 101 - Part4 - Creating images using dockerfile

Docker 101 - Part4 - Creating images using dockerfile

In this article, I will briefly explain how to create your own image using Dockerfile. For example, I will be creating an FIO image. FIO is a storage stress test tool and this image can be used for container storage IO benchmarking/ testing.

• Login to the CentOS docker host.
• Create a file named "Dockerfile".
• # vi Dockerfile
• Add the below two lines and save it.

• # docker build ./

• Once the build is complete, it returns the IMAGE ID as shown below.
• You can use the "docker tag" command to mention a repository and tag to the image. 

• At this stage, as shown in the above screenshot, the FIO image is created with repository "vineethac/fio_image" and tagged as "latest".
• You can run this image as given below.

• # docker run -dit --name FIO_test01 --mount source=disk_data,target=/vol vineethac/fio_image fio --name=RandomReadTest1 --readwrite=randread --rwmixwrite=0 --bs=4k --invalidate=1 --direct=1 --filename=/vol/newfile --size=10g --time_based --runtime=300 --ioengine=libaio --numjobs=2 --iodepth=1 --norandommap --randrepeat=0 --exitall

• The above command will start a container with FIO application running inside it. FIO will use "/vol/newfile" for IO tests. "/vol" is using "disk_data" directory which is inside "/var/lib/docker/volumes". Once the test is complete, the container will exit.

Hope it was useful. Cheers!

Related posts

Docker 101 - Part3 - Persisting data using volumes

Docker 101 - Part2 - Basic operations

Docker 101 - Part1 - Installation

Docker 101 - Part2 - Basic operations

In this article, I will walk you through basic Docker commands and how to work with it for creating, managing, and monitoring Docker containers.

Docker version and info

#docker version

#docker info

Default directory for Docker

#cd /var/lib/docker

Pull images

#docker pull centos:latest 

List images

#docker images

Create bridge network

#docker network create -d bridge --subnet 10.0.0.0/24 ps-bridge

List all bridge networks

#brctl show

Inspect a network 

#docker network ls
#docker network inspect <name>

Run a container

#docker run -dt --name centos_test --network ps-bridge centos sleep 900

SSH into a container

#docker exec -it <name> sh

List running containers

#docker ps

List all containers

#docker ps -a

List container stats

#docker stats

Stop a container

#docker stop <Container ID>

Remove a container

#docker rm <Container ID>

Remove an image

#docker rmi <REPOSITORY:TAG>

Hope it was useful. Cheers!

Related posts

Docker 101 - Part1 - Installation

References

https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/docker-getting-started/table-of-contents