DOCKER DEEP DIVE

Reverse Engineer Docker Images Into Dockerfiles

Reverse engineer docker images by examining the internals of how Docker images store data

Mark Randall Havens
ITNEXT
Published in
15 min readJul 9, 2022

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TL;DR

In this story, we’re going to reverse engineer Docker images by looking at how Docker images store data, how to use tools to look at the different aspects of the image, and how to create tools like Dedockify that use Python Docker APIs to create Dockerfiles.

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