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onetruescottsman
onetruescottsman

Reputation: 21

Shell variables in dockerfile missing in docker image labels

I have a Dockerfile containing some text that looks like '$MYVARIABLE' passed in as labels (these strings are used for custom tooling).

I'm noticing that once this Dockerfile is successfully built that a docker inspect of the resultant image shows blank space where these '$MYVARIABLE' style strings are in the Dockerfile. I just want '$MYVARIABLE' passed as a literal string I don't want it treated as a variable at all.

My first guess was that my shell is trying to expand these as if they were regular variables even though I'm not using Dockerfile ARG or ENV syntax. I concluded this was not the case. So my question is where are these strings going?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 821

Answers (1)

Rambler
Rambler

Reputation: 5482

You would need to declare the passed var as an ARG in the dockerfile. That is if you want to use the var MY_ARG as Label , you would have to declare it in the following manner :

ARG MY_ARG

LABEL "My Arg"=$MY_ARG

If you are already doing that , maybe the issue is with how those variables are initialized/passed.Maybe some code will help.

Upvotes: 1

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