From the course: OpenShift Essential Training: Container Orchestration and Deployment
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Working with container images - OpenShift Tutorial
From the course: OpenShift Essential Training: Container Orchestration and Deployment
Working with container images
- [Host] So let's see how containers are made. It all starts with container images, the building blocks of every containerized application. In this video, I'm going to show you how to inspect and analyze container images. Think of a container image as a ready to go recipe kit. It's a complete package that include your application and all ingredients, dependencies it needs to run. Images can exist without containers, but containers depend on images to exist. Image registries are places where you can download container images. Here, container image create or store, and share container images with others. Some examples of image registries include Quay.io, Redhat Registry, Docker Hub, and so on. Now Skopeo is another tool to inspect and manage remote container images. With Skopeo, you can copy and sync container images from different container registries and repositories. To log into a registry, we use this Skopeo login command. To inspect an image from a remote registry, we can use the…