Docker and Kubernetes for Java Developers

LABEL

To add the metadata to our image, we use the LABEL instruction. A single label is a key-value pair. If you need to have spaces in the label value, you will need to wrap it in a pair of quotes. Labels are additive, they include all labels taken from an image that is the base of your own image (the one from the FROM instruction). If Docker encounters a label that already exists, it will override the label having the same key with the new value. There are some rules that you must stick to when defining labels: keys can only consist of lowercase alphanumeric characters, dots, and dashes, and must begin and end with alphanumeric characters. To prevent naming conflicts, Docker recommends using namespaces to label keys using reverse domain ...