Downloading Docker images 

In this recipe, we will download a Docker image. In a production environment, while creating a Docker image for an application, we need to add code and the configurations of our application over the top of an existing Docker image (sometimes referred to as a base image), such as Ubuntu, CentOS, and so on. When we deploy a container to a critical environment, we want to minimize the risk of delays. Therefore, it is better to download the image locally before using the docker_container module, so as to reduce the deployment time. In this recipe, we will also learn how to create a Docker image using Dockerfile.

How to do it… 

1. Let's define the task to pull a Docker image:

- name: Download docker image
  docker_image:
    name: ubuntu
  tags:
    - recipe3

2. Let's now create a dummy project to build a Docker image:

# Let us create our project directory aside our playbook
$ mkdir docker_files

# Let us create our Dockerfile
$ vim Dockerfile

FROM ubuntu:latest
CMD ["sleep"...