Image Naming and Tagging
Explore the fundamentals of Docker image naming and tagging to understand how images are identified and managed. Learn to pull images from official and unofficial repositories, and grasp the importance of tags like latest. This lesson equips you to interact confidently with Docker images for container management.
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Image name
Most of the time, you’ll work with images based on their names, and you can learn a lot about an image from its name. The figure below shows a fully qualified image name, including the registry name, user/organization name, repository name, and tag. Docker automatically populates the registry and tag values if we don’t specify them.
Fully qualified image name
Pulling official images
Addressing images from official repositories is easy. All we need to supply is the ...