From 8f39edf935f030166a0511a5690996c19db02249 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mitchell Hashimoto Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2013 13:59:34 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] website: document dockerfile --- website/source/docs/builders/docker.html.markdown | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/website/source/docs/builders/docker.html.markdown b/website/source/docs/builders/docker.html.markdown index a38691f76..a6807aac4 100644 --- a/website/source/docs/builders/docker.html.markdown +++ b/website/source/docs/builders/docker.html.markdown @@ -38,4 +38,11 @@ All configuration options are currently required. ## Dockerfiles -TODO +This builder allows you to build Docker images _without_ Dockerfiles. If +you have a Dockerfile already made, it is simple to just run `docker build` +manually. + +With this builder, you can repeatably create Docker images without the use +a Dockerfile. You don't need to know the syntax or semantics of Dockerfiles. +Instead, you can just provide shell scripts, Chef recipes, Puppet manifests, +etc. to provision your Docker container just like you would a regular machine.