I can't find my Docker image after building it

Question

I\'m new to Docker, so please allow me to describe the steps that I did. I\'m using Docker (not Docker toolbox) on OS X. I built the image from Dockerfile using the followin

Answer 1

In addition to the correct responses above that discuss how to access your container or container image, if you want to know how the image is written to disk...

Docker uses a Copy on Write File System (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy-on-write) and stores each Docker image as a series of read only layers and stores them in a list. The link below does a good job explaining how the image layers are actually stored on disk.

https://docs.docker.com/storage/storagedriver/