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Saher Elgendy
Saher Elgendy

Reputation: 1619

failed to solve with frontend dockerfile.v0: failed to read dockerfile?

I am new to Docker and i am trying to create an image from my application, i created Dockerfile in the same directory with package.json file with no extension, just Dockerfile

Now in Dockerfile:

FROM node:14.16.0
CMD ["/bin/bash"]

and i am trying to build the image with that command

docker build -t app .

But i got this constant error:

[+] Building 0.2s (2/2) FINISHED
 => [internal] load build definition from Dockerfile                                                           0.2s 
 => => transferring dockerfile: 2B                                                                             0.0s 
 => CANCELED [internal] load .dockerignore                                                                     0.0s 
 => => transferring context:                                                                                   0.0s
failed to solve with frontend dockerfile.v0: failed to read dockerfile: open /var/lib/docker/tmp/buildkit-mount457647683/Dockerfile: no such file or directory

My folder directory is like this:

   |- Dockerfile
   |- README.md
   |- src
   |- package.json
   |- public
   |- node-modules
   |-package-lock.json

My OS is : Windows 10 Pro

Upvotes: 20

Views: 32597

Answers (7)

El Gueddari Ayoub
El Gueddari Ayoub

Reputation: 11

In my case, the error was that the Dockerfile location was incorrect so I correct the location and it worked

Upvotes: 0

Yann Borie
Yann Borie

Reputation: 54

It's a pretty generic error message but what caused it for me, was in my Dockerfile, I didn't have a space specifying the initial command properly. Here's how it should look like:

CMD ["command-name"]

Notice the space between "CMD" and "[".

Instead, my mistake was that I typed CMD["command-name"] which resulted in the error you described.

Upvotes: 1

krishna chaitanya yelleti
krishna chaitanya yelleti

Reputation: 119

Naming convention for Docker file is 'Dockerfile' not 'DockerFile', I got this error because of this.

Upvotes: 5

tripleee
tripleee

Reputation: 189789

If you come here from a duplicate, notice also that Docker prevents you from accessing files outside the current directory tree. So, for example,

docker build -f ../Dockerfile .

will not be allowed. You have to copy the Dockerfile into the current directory, or perhaps run the build in the parent directory.

For what it's worth, you also can't use symlinks to files elsewhere in your file system from docker build for security reasons.

Upvotes: 6

gallaleo
gallaleo

Reputation: 347

I encountered a different issue, so sharing as an FYI. On Windows, I created the docker file as DockerFile instead of Dockerfile. The capital F messed things up.

Upvotes: 23

SHAIK NAGULMEERA
SHAIK NAGULMEERA

Reputation: 9

In windows when the Dockerfile is in .txt format I got this error. changing it to type "file" fixed the issue.

Upvotes: 0

tedtrux
tedtrux

Reputation: 191

Double check that you are in the right directory. I was in downloads/app

When I downloaded the app from Docker as part of their tutorial, I extracted it and it ended up in downloads/app**/app** Type dir in your terminal to see if you can see dockerfile or another folder called app.

Upvotes: 19

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