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@@ -398,7 +398,15 @@ troubleshoot, and maintain.
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### [`ONBUILD`](https://docs.docker.com/reference/builder/#onbuild)
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-`ONBUILD` is only useful for images that are going to be built `FROM` a given
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+An `ONBUILD` command executes after the current `Dockerfile` build completes.
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+`ONBUILD` executes in any child image derived `FROM` the current image. Think
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+of the `ONBUILD` command as an instruction the parent `Dockerfile` gives
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+to the child `Dockerfile`.
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+A Docker build executes `ONBUILD` commands before any command in a child
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+`Dockerfile`.
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+`ONBUILD` is useful for images that are going to be built `FROM` a given
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image. For example, you would use `ONBUILD` for a language stack image that
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builds arbitrary user software written in that language within the
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`Dockerfile`, as you can see in [Ruby’s `ONBUILD` variants](https://github.com/docker-library/ruby/blob/master/2.1/onbuild/Dockerfile).
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