How to name Dockerfiles

Question

I\'m unsure of how to name Dockerfiles. Many on GitHub use Dockerfile without a file extension. Do I give them a name and extension; if so what? Or do I just ca

Answer 1

Dockerfile is good if you only have one docker file (per-directory). You can use whatever standard you want if you need multiple docker files in the same directory - if you have a good reason. In a recent project there were AWS docker files and local dev environment files because the environments differed enough:

Dockerfile Dockerfile.aws