The Whale, the Container, and the Ocean - A Docker Tale

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Shows how a Dockerfile actually builds an image by walking a local repo through a docker build into the docker daemon and then into a container, demonstrating WORKDIR, COPY, RUN (npm install) and CMD. Explains why the dot context matters, how a 171 MB node_modules can balloon build context and how .dockerignore shrinks it to under 1 MB, how missing files cause COPY or npm errors, and how image layering and hashes let you inspect intermediate build snapshots for faster debugging.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:32building a simple app from a docker file on our local machine
3. 8:03transfer files from the docker daemon into our container
4. 10:16run the native npm install within our linux container
5. 11:34setting a default run command for our container
6. 13:42selecting the right amount of build context

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