3. Building a Docker Image

Building a Docker image

• Docker works by making use of something called containers and images. To know more about this, refer this page.
• If git is not installed in your system, run this command to install it:

sudo apt-get install git

• This repository contains a dockerfile named melodic_dockerfile.Dockerfile in the docker directory. Run the following command to download the repository to your system:

git clone https://github.com/saahu27/UR3Manipulator.git

• Navigate to docker folder which is inside UR3Manipulator folder. Use cd to navigate inside the docker folder:

cd UR3Manipulator/docker/

• To build an image from the given dockerfile, run this command:

DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build -t ur3e_image -f melodic_dockerfile.Dockerfile .

Name, Shorthand	Description
DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1	Improvement in performance, storage management, feature functionality, and security
--tag, -t	Name and optionally a tag in the 'name:tag' format
--file, -f	Name of the Dockerfile (Default is 'PATH/Dockerfile')
.	PATH is the current directory