5 Copywriting Tools for Graphic Designers 2022

Graphic design provides visual communication and expression of concepts and ideas using graphic tools and elements. It incorporates copywriting tools as graphic design is employed in the process of writing advertising promotional materials. In graphic design, copywriters help create web page content, online ads and other online content related to the web in question. Image...

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Shall I Use ADD or COPY in the Dockerfile, and What’s the Difference?

Every developer and every team faces confusion about COPY and ADD in the Dockerfile at some point. When I get this question, first I usually give the technical background, which is this:

Both ADD and COPY copy files and directories from the host machine into a Docker image, the difference is that ADD can also extract and copy local tar archives and it can also download files from URLs (a.k.a. the internet), and copy them into the Docker image. The best practice is to use COPY.

Docker Layers Explained

When you pull a Docker image, you will notice that it is pulled as different layers. Also, when you create your own Docker image, several layers are created. In this post we will try to get a better understanding of Docker layers.

1. What Is a Docker Layer?

A Docker image consists of several layers. Each layer corresponds to certain instructions in your Dockerfile. The following instructions create a layer: RUNCOPYADD. The other instructions will create intermediate layers and do not influence the size of your image. Let’s take a look at an example. We will use a Spring Boot MVC application which we have created beforehand and where the Maven build creates our Docker image. The sources are available at GitHub.