You can create "base" image of your application and update only code. Part of our fabric deploy script: with api.settings(**env_vars): api.run('docker ru

You can create "base" image of your application and update only code. Part of our fabric deploy script: with api.settings(**env_vars): api.run('docker run baseimage sh -c "git pull && cp /src/webapp/settings/paths_docker.py /src/webapp/settings/paths.py"') d = datetime.datetime.now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d,%H-%M') # new image from last running container with updates api.run('docker commit $(docker ps -lq) baseimage:%s' % d) api.run('docker stop $(docker ps -aq)') api.run('docker run -d -p 127.0.0.1:8073:8083 baseimage:%s sh runindocker.sh' % d)