# Rust language-specific guide — Tag images

> As mentioned earlier, an image name is made up of slash-separated name components.

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As mentioned earlier, an image name is made up of slash-separated name components. Name components may contain lowercase letters, digits, and separators. A separator can include a period, one or two underscores, or one or more dashes. A name component may not start or end with a separator.

An image is made up of a manifest and a list of layers. Don't worry too much about manifests and layers at this point other than a "tag" points to a combination of these artifacts. You can have multiple tags for an image. Create a second tag for the image you built and take a look at its layers.

To create a new tag for the image you built, run the following command.

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```console
$ docker tag docker-rust-image-dhi:latest docker-rust-image-dhi:v1.0.0
```

The docker tag command creates a new tag for an image. It doesn't create a new image. The tag points to the same image and is just another way to reference the image.

Now, run the docker images command to see a list of the local images.

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```console
$ docker images
IMAGE                          ID             DISK USAGE   CONTENT SIZE   EXTRA
docker-rust-image-dhi:latest   99a1b925a8d6       11.6MB         2.45MB    U
docker-rust-image-dhi:v1.0.0   99a1b925a8d6       11.6MB         2.45MB    U
```

You can see that two images start with docker-rust-image-dhi. You know they're the same image because if you take a look at the IMAGE ID column, you can see that the values are the same for the two images.

Remove the tag you just created. To do this, use the rmi command. The rmi command stands for remove image.

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```console
$ docker rmi docker-rust-image-dhi:v1.0.0
Untagged: docker-rust-image-dhi:v1.0.0
```

Note that the response from Docker tells you that Docker didn't remove the image, but only "untagged" it. You can check this by running the docker images command.

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```console
$ docker images
IMAGE                          ID             DISK USAGE   CONTENT SIZE   EXTRA
docker-rust-image-dhi:latest   99a1b925a8d6       11.6MB         2.45MB    U
``` …

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