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Creating Images Using a Dockerfile

1 hour

3 Learning Objectives

About this Hands-on Lab

You’ve decided to Dockerize your weather-app. Before you can do this, you’ll need to create an image for it. And you’ll want to keep the image small, so you will create it using a multi-stage build.

Using instructions in a Dockerfile, build the image, then test it by creating a container that uses it.

Learning Objectives

Successfully complete this lab by achieving the following learning objectives:

Create a docker file

Create a docker file:

vi Dockerfile

Dockerfile contents:

FROM node AS source
RUN mkdir -p /node/weather-app
ADD src/ /node/weather-app
WORKDIR /node/weather-app
RUN npm install

FROM node:alpine
ARG APP_VERSION=V1.1
LABEL org.label-schema.version=$APP_VERSION
ENV NODE_ENV="production"
COPY --from=source /node/weather-app /node/weather-app
WORKDIR /node/weather-app
EXPOSE 3000
ENTRYPOINT ["./bin/www"]

Build the image

Use Git commit hash as the image tag:

cd src
git log -1 --pretty=%H
cd ../

Build the image:

sudo docker image build -t linuxacademy/weather-app:[HASH] --build-arg APP_VERSION=2.0 .

Deploy a test container using the image just created

Create the weather-app container:

sudo docker container run -d --name weather-app -p 8080:3000 linuxacademy/weather-app:<HASH>

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In the /home/cloud_user/ directory, you will find the weather-app. Navigate to it. In that directory you will find the source code to the weather-app in src.

Create the Dockerfile

Create a Dockerfile that will use a multi-stage build. The first stage will use node as the base image, and will be called source.

Change the directory to weather-app.
Create and edit a Dockerfile file.
- In the file, create a directory for the source code: /node/weather-app.
- Add the code from src to /node/weather-app on the image.
- Set /node/weather-app as the working directory.
- Execute an npm install to install the dependencies.
- The second stage will use node:alpine as the base image.
- Create an argument called APP_VERSION that will set the version of the application.
- Set an environment variable called NODE_ENV and set it to production.
- Copy /node/weather-app from the source build stage to /node/weather-app.
- Set /node/weather-app as the working directory.
- Expose port 3000.
- Set ./bin/www as the entrypoint.
Save the changes to the file.

Build the weather-app image

In the src directory, execute git log -1 --pretty=%H to get the commit hash.
Use the commit hash as the tag when you execute the image build.
Using the build argument, flag set APP_VERSION to 2.0.

Deploy a test container using the image.

Create a container called weather-app using the image you just built, and run it as a background process.
- Publish port 8080 to 3000 on the container.
Execute curl localhost:8080 to test the container.

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