A question which always gets asked regarding the union layered filesystem for images is whether the intermediary image layers can be merged into one? The answer is yes, you can –squash image layers during a bulid from a Dockerfile.
The attached video shows 2 example builds of the same Dockerfile, one is standard, the second using –squash to merge the layers.
If you are using Docker for Windows and want to switch between Linux or Windows containers you can do this by right clicking the Docker “Whale” in the systray and selecting “Switch to Windows containers”:
….but no one likes clicking around do they!
There is an alternative way to do this which I use in my docker session demo’s which makes things so much easier and the switch is a lot quicker! In powershell, run the script below and it’ll switch from Linux to Windows containers and vice versa:
Linux Containers:
Run the SwitchDaemon script:
& 'C:\Program Files\Docker\Docker\DockerCli.exe' -SwitchDaemon
