Docker containers are spreading fast. They're sneaking into our development environments, production servers, and the proliferation of links in this post emphasizes how hot the topic currently is. Containers encapsulate applications into a portable machine you can easily build, control and ship. It brings most of the modern services just one command away, clean development environments, and agile production infrastructure, to name a few of the benefits. While getting started is insanely easy, real life applications can be tricky when you try to push a bit on the boundaries. In this post, we're going to study how to provision docker containers, prototyping along the way our very own image builder. Hopefully, by the end of this post, you should get a good idea of the challenges and opportunities involved.

As of today, docker hub features 15,000 images and the most popular one was downloaded 3.588.280 times. We better be good at crafting them!