:_mod-docs-content-type: ASSEMBLY
[id="understanding-images"]
= Understanding containers, images, and image streams
include::_attributes/common-attributes.adoc[]
:context: images-understand

toc::[]

[role="_abstract"]
Containers, images, and image streams are core concepts in {product-title} that you must understand when creating and managing containerized software.

The following sections provide an overview of the concepts of containers, images, and image streams.

include::modules/images-about.adoc[leveloffset=+1]

include::modules/containers-about.adoc[leveloffset=+1]

include::modules/images-image-registry-about.adoc[leveloffset=+1]

include::modules/images-container-repository-about.adoc[leveloffset=+1]

include::modules/images-tag.adoc[leveloffset=+1]

include::modules/images-id.adoc[leveloffset=+1]

include::modules/images-imagestream-use.adoc[leveloffset=+1]

include::modules/images-imagestream-tag.adoc[leveloffset=+1]

include::modules/images-imagestream-image.adoc[leveloffset=+1]

include::modules/images-imagestream-trigger.adoc[leveloffset=+1]

ifdef::openshift-enterprise,openshift-webscale,openshift-origin[]


[id="additional-resources_images-understand"]
[role="_additional-resources"]
== Additional resources

* xref:../openshift_images/image-streams-manage.adoc#managing-image-streams[Managing image streams]
endif::[]
