How are Docker Layers bundled into Docker Images?

It’s impossible to work with docker containers without docker images. In this post I want to talk about what makes docker images possible: the overlay filesystems.

Interesting to know how things work behind the scenes.

How are docker images built? A look into the Linux overlay file-systems and the OCI specification →

Published by Bramus!

Bramus is a frontend web developer from Belgium, working as a Chrome Developer Relations Engineer at Google. From the moment he discovered view-source at the age of 14 (way back in 1997), he fell in love with the web and has been tinkering with it ever since (more …)

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