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Andrew
Andrew

Reputation: 1575

Cannot find WORKDIR in the container

I've been building nodejs applications and wanted to investigate projects inside a Docker container. But when I check the running container via bin/bash I cannot find /app directory in a container

While building image no errors are being displayed

This is my docker image file

FROM node:15.7.0 as build-stage
WORKDIR /app
COPY package*.json /app/
RUN npm install
COPY ./ /app/
ARG configuration=production
RUN npm run build -- --output-path=./dist/out --configuration $configuration

FROM nginx:1.18
COPY --from=build-stage /app/dist/out/ /usr/share/nginx/html
COPY ./nginx-custom.conf /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf

Upvotes: 4

Views: 3801

Answers (2)

larsks
larsks

Reputation: 312273

Sèdjro has the correct answer, but I wanted to expand on it briefly.

You're using what is called a multi-stage build. If you haven't seen them already, the linked docs are a good read.

Each FROM ... line in your Dockerfile starts a new build stage, and only the contents of the final stage are relevant to the generated Docker image.

Other stages in the file are available as sources of the COPY --from=... directive.

In other words, as soon as you add a second FROM ... line, as in...

FROM node:15.7.0 as build-stage
.
.
.
FROM nginx:1.18

...then the contents of the first stage are effectively discarded, unless you explicitly copy them into the final image using COPY --from=.... Your /app directory only exists in the first stage, since you're copying it into a different location in the final stage.

Upvotes: 9

Sèdjro Enock TITO
Sèdjro Enock TITO

Reputation: 64

The /app directory is not inside of your docker image. It's in your build stage image. Check the /usr/share/nginx/html directory or don't use build stage.

Upvotes: 3

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