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Please teach me about images (lazysoci.al)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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There's a service that I want to use, however for reasons, it no longer has any builds available. Consequently, I am thinking of building it myself. How does one go about doing that and then afterwards, how do I get it up on Docker hub? Can I just create an account and upload?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Thank you so much. Okay. I'm trying to update an image that's been depreciated. I figure all I have to do is update the Docker file and the rest should be simple.

I want to do it on my Pi, but I don't want to pollute my Pi with superfluous stuff. Is that a pipe dream? Everything seems to say yes, but I just need confirmation.

If yes, I guess I need to create a new directory. If I create a new directory and then create the Docker file there, will it affect my image? Like do I need to match the directory name and image name?

Sorry, these are super basic questions, but I always get super anxious before trying things. What I love about Docker is that I can always delete and start again and the fact that this doesn't follow that is making me extra cautious.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

You can absolutely do this without polluting anything on your system.

The directory name doesn't matter, when you build the image you'll specify a tag for it.

The only thing to watch for is when you build the same tag name again, as you iterate on the Dockerfile changes, docker won't remove the old image from your local registry. It will just untag it, so you might see several images called something like "". Remember to remove those every so often so you don't fill up your Pi's storage.

Edit: Also Docker will keep a "build cache" for this stuff, which doesn't really "pollute" anything but it does take up disk space. You can clean that up with docker builder prune, read this for all the usage info: https://docs.docker.com/reference/cli/docker/builder/prune/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I cannot thank you enough. Thank you so much!