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:title: Building blocks
:description: An introduction to docker and standard containers?
:keywords: containers, lxc, concepts, explanation
Building blocks
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.. _images:
Images
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An original container image. These are stored on disk and are comparable with what you normally expect from a stopped virtual machine image. Images are stored (and retrieved from) repository
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Images are stored on your local file system under /var/lib/docker/images
.. _containers:
Containers
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A container is a local version of an image. It can be running or stopped, The equivalent would be a virtual machine instance.
Containers are stored on your local file system under /var/lib/docker/containers
