Dockerfile Cheat Sheet

LABEL version="1.0"

LABEL "com.example.vendor"="ACME Incorporated"
LABEL com.example.label-with-value="foo"

LABEL description="This text illustrates \
that label-values can span multiple lines."

ENTRYPOINT ["executable", "param1", "param2"]
ENTRYPOINT command param1 param2

Configures a container that will run as an executable.

ENTRYPOINT exec top -b

This will use shell processing to substitute shell variables, and will ignore any CMD or docker run command line arguments.

EXPOSE 5900
CMD    ["bundle", "exec", "rails", "server"]

ONBUILD RUN bundle install
# when used with another file

RUN bundle install

WORKDIR /myapp

VOLUME ["/data"]
# Specification for mount point

ADD file.xyz /file.xyz
COPY --chown=user:group host_file.xyz /path/container_file.xyz

ENV APP_HOME /myapp
RUN mkdir $APP_HOME

FROM ruby:2.2.2