What is docker layer?

Question

Could someone tell me what is a Docker Layer?

Answer 1

A Docker image is a read-only template that houses a set of instructions which are required for creating a container that you could use as an application package containing pre-configured environments that enabled to run on Docker platforms.

And each Docker image consists of numerous layers. These layers contain a set of different instructions in your Docker File and are called Docker layer.

There are two types of layers, layer, and intermediate layers. Commands like RUN, COPY, ADD create a layer, whereas other instructions create intermediate layers, that won’t affect the size of a Docker Image.

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