Containers

What is a Containerfile/Dockerfile?

Difficulty: unrated

Source: bregman-arie/devops-exercises by Arie Bregman

Answer

Different container engines (e.g. Docker, Podman) can build images automatically by reading the instructions from a Containerfile/Dockerfile. A Containerfile/Dockerfile is a text file that contains all the instructions for building an image which containers can use.