What can Sitecore be used for in Docker?
We take the Windows Server Core image released by Microsoft and we add a custom layer on top of it to include the Sitecore code. This could be an image to build a Content Management (CM) role, or Content Delivery (CD) role, but the concept remains the same.
How to run Docker on a local machine?
To bring an image down to your local machine, you would use a Docker pull command, e.g. This command will pull down the mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/core/samples image that has the dotnetapp tag. Once it has been pulled down, you can then use it locally to create containers based on it. To do that, you would use a simple Docker run command, e.g.
Which is the best registry to use for Docker?
The most popular public registry is Docker Hub. In there, you can find images for almost any modern software you can think of! To bring an image down to your local machine, you would use a Docker pull command, e.g. This command will pull down the mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/core/samples image that has the dotnetapp tag.
What kind of image is the Sitecore image?
If you look at the image above, you can see that the Sitecore® Experience Platform™ (XP) image is built on top of the 4.8-windowsservercore-ltsc2019 image. We take the Windows Server Core image released by Microsoft and we add a custom layer on top of it to include the Sitecore code.
Is there a Sitecore 10 Build solution issue?
I am trying to follow sitecore 10 example in docker ( https://containers.doc.sitecore.com/docs/build-solution) and as an out of box step worked correctly, I am having issue on step 6 with build solution. Every time resulting with an error below:
What do you need to know about images in Docker?
An image is a read-only template with instructions for creating a Docker container. Images themselves are built on the concept of layers, each layer building upon the layer below it. This concept means it makes it very simple to customize existing images to build out your custom functionality.