Dockerfile Dockerfile dockerfile manuals: https://takacsmark.com/dockerfile-tutorial-by-example-dockerfile-best-practices-2018/ best practice: https://docs.docker.com/develop/develop-images/dockerfile_best-practices/ key instructions FROM - base image ENV variable=test environment variable can be used with bash syntax $variable VOLUME [ "/var/test" ] used to expose some storage CMD what command should be run in the image CMD [“executable”, “param1”, “param2”, ...] Its possible to override the command on starting up a container docker run myImage:latest _command_ Only last CMD will be used (so specifiy only one). Its a good practice to specify at leaset a shell command here. ENTRYPOINT Used to specify the 'main executable' of the image If ENTRYPOINT is specified, CMD paramas will be added to the ENTRYPOINT ENTRYPOINT ["git"] CMD ["--help"] building Docker CLI