# Rust language-specific guide — Build an image

> Now that you’ve created the Dockerfile, you can build the image.

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Now that you’ve created the Dockerfile, you can build the image. To do this, use the docker build command. The docker build command builds Docker images from a Dockerfile and a context. A build's context is the set of files located in the specified PATH or URL. The Docker build process can access any of the files located in this context.

The build command optionally takes a --tag flag. The tag sets the name of the image and an optional tag in the format name:tag. If you don't pass a tag, Docker uses "latest" as its default tag.

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

You should see output like the following.

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```console
[+] Building 1.4s (13/13) FINISHED                                                                                                                                 docker:desktop-linux
 =&gt; [internal] load build definition from Dockerfile                                                                                                                               0.0s
 =&gt; =&gt; transferring dockerfile: 1.67kB                                                                                                                                             0.0s
 =&gt; [internal] load metadata for dhi.io/static:20250419                                                                                                                            1.1s
 =&gt; [internal] load metadata for dhi.io/rust:1.92-alpine3.22-dev
```

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