dockerfiles

This repository is a personal collection of Dockerfiles kept by the developer Jessie Frazelle. A Dockerfile is a small recipe that describes how to package a program along with everything it needs to run, so it can start the same way on any machine. The repo gathers many of these recipes in one place, covering tools the author uses on her own desktop and on servers.

The README explains that almost all of these packaged images are published on Docker Hub under the account named jess, where anyone can download them. It also notes a side detail: because a signing feature called notary does not work with Docker Hub's automatic builds, the author additionally rebuilds the same images on her own private registry at r.j3ss.co so the public can still pull signed copies from there.

The README points to a companion repository, the author's dotfiles, which holds personal configuration files. In particular it links to a file of shortcuts (aliases) that let you launch each of these Docker images with a short command instead of typing the full instruction every time. This is offered as a convenience for people who want to actually run the tools.

There is a short section on contributing. The author says she tries to put a comment at the top of each Dockerfile showing the exact command used to run that image. If you find a file that is missing this command, she invites you to send in a fix, which on GitHub is called a pull request.

The final part lists the commands available through the project's Makefile, a helper that automates routine jobs. Running make help prints the menu: build compiles all the Dockerfiles, image builds a single chosen one, run launches a chosen image using the command stored at the top of its file, latest-versions checks whether the contents are up to date, and shellcheck and test run quality checks on the scripts. The README is brief and does not describe each individual image in detail, so the repo is best understood as a working toolbox rather than a guided tutorial.