Containers from Scratch
Dockerfile & layer caching
Lesson 2 of 5
Each instruction is a cached layer; changing one invalidates every layer after it, so order cheap-to-change steps last.
What you'll learn
- Read a Dockerfile as an ordered stack of layers
- Understand how the build cache reuses unchanged layers
- Know why COPYing source late keeps dependency installs cached
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