I am new to Docker, but I am confused about how the docker images ls -a behaves differently in Docker desktop. Unlike when running in linux it does not show intermediate/dangling images, but it only lists the images I tag explictly.
To illustrate the issue, say I have this Dockerfile.
FROM python:3
RUN apt update
RUN apt install -y vim
Save it as Dockerfile and build and tag the image via the command docker build -t pyvim .
When I execute the command docker images -a on Linux machines I get
REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE
pyvim latest 9d3e171e0220 13 minutes ago 938MB
<none> <none> 360f898a1298 13 minutes ago 904MB
python 3 cba42c28d9b8 2 days ago 886MB
which is what I expect, the Python 3 image, my image, and the dangling image in the middle resulting from running apt update.
However, after following the same steps on Mac or Windows, both running 'Docker desktop', docker images -a only shows the 'pyvim' image:
REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE
pyvim latest 63926d5470fe 18 minutes ago 938MB
I don't understand this behaviour. It looks like the -a flag has no effect on windows/mac.
