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    03. Build - Creating the Dockerfile

    Posts: 13
    edited September 2023 in LFD259 Class Forum

    Hi,

    I am going through the LFD259 course, I'm on chapter 3 on "Creating the Dockerfile".

    In this section, the instructions says to create a "Dockerfile" and then run

    sudo docker build -t simpleapp

    However I get the below message:

    ERROR: "docker buildx build" requires exactly 1 argument.

    So I then copied the Dockerfile from the Lab exercise folder so it contains this.

    1. FROM python:3
    2. ADD simple.py /
    3. ## RUN pip install pystrich
    4. CMD [ "python", "./simple.py" ]

    The directory also contains all of the other files in LFD259\SOLUTIONS\s_03.

    Am I doing something wrong? Any help is appreciated, I've not worked on Docker before so I have a basic knowledge.

    I've also tried

    sudo docker build -t simpleapp -f Dockerfile

    The slide doesn't mention anything else that I need to do.

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    • Posts: 64

      Hello @abelpatel

      What you are missing is the "Build Context" ... The relative or absolute path to a local directory..

      Try this ...

      sudo docker build -t simpleapp . # Note there is period at the end of the command - which means current directory. You are missing that in your command.

      or

      sudo docker build -t simpleapp /path/where/dockerfile

      Example : sudo docker build -t simpleapp /home/student/myapp

    • Posts: 13

      @fazlur.khan - thank you. that did the trick.

    • Posts: 2,436
      edited September 2023

      Hi @abelpatel,

      When selecting the command for copy/paste you omitted the "dot" at the very end, which supplies the working directory as the required build context.

      Assuming you were already in /home/<student>/app1/ the command should have been:
      sudo docker build -t simpleapp .

      Regards,
      -Chris

    • Posts: 13

      @chrispokorni - thanks. I did add the "." at the end and it worked.

      In the slide it doesn't have the "." at the end of the command which caused the confusion on my behalf.

    • Posts: 2,268

      Hi @abelpatel,

      You should be following the lab pdf instructions, which do include the "."

      Regards,
      Flavia

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