Mastering Docker, Chapter 3: Container Image Storage

This entire chapter of the book seemed very much like filler.  The big takeaway is that if you can use a computer you can use Docker Hub to set up automated builds.  I would skip this chapter completely.

Docker Hub

This section is full of details that are subject to change. 

Dashboard

There are a couple of sections here about using the Docker Hub website.  I'm assuming if you are reading a book on using Docker, you probably know how to use a website.  So I'm not going to cover them.  This blog is mostly for making sure I get the key takeaways from books as I read them, and there was nothing helpful here.

Automated Builds

This section sounded great.  It ended up not being.  You can kick off automated builds from either github or bitbucket. Use the website, set up your account, pick your repo, push to it, and you get automated builds. 

Setting up Docker Hub

Putting all the pieces together

Creating your own registry

Maybe I am missing something here, but the author never explains what a registry is, or why I need one.  He does give some commands that I glossed over, because I don't know what a registry is or why I need it.  For a book that shows screenshots of a website I feel this section, this whole chapter was a colossal waste of my time.


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