理解dockerfile是如何工作的？

1.下面是一个最简单的dockerfile：

FROM baserepo
RUN do something

2.这个dockerfile build完等价于下面的命令：

Step 0 :
sudo docker pull baserepo:latest
sudo docker run --name baserepo_bash01 -i -t baserepo:latest /bin/bash
sudo docker ps -a
b779269d5001

sudo docker commit b779269d5001 imagename01

Step 1:
sudo docker run --name baserepo_bash02 -i -t imagename01 /bin/bash
sudo docker ps -a
b779269d5001
b779269d5002

sudo docker exec -d baserepo_bash02 do something
sudo docker commit b779269d5002 imagename02

sudo docker run --name baserepo_bash -i -t imagename02 /bin/bash
sudo docker ps -a
b779269d5001
b779269d5002
b779269d5003

sudo docker stop b779269d5002
sudo docker rm b779269d5002
sudo docker rmi imagename01

sudo docker ps -a
b779269d5001
b779269d5003

sudo docker images
baserepo:latest
imagename02

3.如果看不懂这做的事情，那参照下面的例子理解下

Take the following Dockerfile:
FROM base
RUN echo ‘foo‘ > /tmp/foo.txt
RUN echo ‘bar‘ >> /tmp/foo.txt

and build it:
$ docker build --force-rm -t so-26220957 .
Sending build context to Docker daemon 3.584 kB
Sending build context to Docker daemon
Step 0 : FROM base
 ---> b750fe79269d
Step 1 : RUN echo ‘foo‘ > /tmp/foo.txt
 ---> Running in d37d756f6e55
 ---> de1d48805de2
Removing intermediate container d37d756f6e55
Step 2 : RUN echo ‘bar‘ >> /tmp/foo.txt
 ---> Running in a180fdacd268
 ---> 40fd00ee38e1
Removing intermediate container a180fdacd268
Successfully built 40fd00ee38e1

You can now start a new container from b750fe79269d, de1d48805de2 and 40fd00ee38e1:
$ docker run --rm b750fe79269d cat /tmp/foo.txt
cat: /tmp/foo.txt: No such file or directory

$ docker run --rm de1d48805de2 cat /tmp/foo.txt
foo

$ docker run --rm 40fd00ee38e1 cat /tmp/foo.txt
foo
bar

of course you might want to start a shell to explore the filesystem and try out commands:
$ docker run --rm -it de1d48805de2 bash -il
[email protected]:/# ls -l /tmp
total 4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4 Oct  6 18:34 foo.txt
[email protected]:/# cat /tmp/foo.txt
foo
[email protected]:/#
来源于：http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26220957/how-can-i-inspect-the-file-system-of-a-failed-docker-build

总结下：dockerfile做的事情其实就是拉镜像，镜像启容器，容器转镜像，镜像再启容器，容器再转镜像，删除中间镜像和容器，大概就是这样的。