why get error: "docker build" requires exactly 1 argument - docker

I look a sample
Dockerfile
ARG some_variable_name
# or with a default:
# ARG some_variable_name=default_value
RUN echo "Oh dang look at that $some_variable_name
# or with ${some_variable_name}
docker build
$ docker build --build-arg some_variable_name=a_value
result
Oh dang look at that a_value
but, I used the sample always gets error
"docker build" requires exactly 1 argument.
See 'docker build --help'.
Usage: docker build [OPTIONS] PATH | URL | -
Build an image from a Dockerfile
Why? Was I lose something?

in addition to #Ridwan answer, MAKE SURE THERE IS NO ADDITIONAL WHITE SPACE IN BETWEEN
docker build -t mytag .

You seem to have forgotten to put a dot, which represents that the Dockerfile in the local directory.
By that I meant:
docker build -t mytag .
What you were previously doing was:
docker build -t mytag
Thus forgetting to put the dot.

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Docker build requires exactly 1 argument

When I run this command on my gitlab pipeline
docker build --build-arg NPM_TOKEN=${NPM_TOKEN} --tag $REGISTRY_IMAGE/web-public:$CI_COMMIT_SHA --tag $REGISTRY_IMAGE/web-public:$CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME packages/web-public
it fails with
build requires exactly 1 argument
It looks to me like I am actually passing one argument, the path; packages/web-public. Flags are not arguments as far as I know.
What am I missing here?
This is the structure of my project
Quote your variables. Something in those variables is expanding to be more than the single arg to the flag.
docker build --build-arg "NPM_TOKEN=${NPM_TOKEN}" --tag "$REGISTRY_IMAGE/web-public:$CI_COMMIT_SHA" --tag "$REGISTRY_IMAGE/web-public:$CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME" packages/web-public
You can also echo that command to see how the variables are expanding, e.g.
echo docker build ...
from https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/build/
docker build [OPTIONS] PATH | URL | -
It looks like there's something wrong with your PATH. Try using the absolute path or change to the directory containing the Dockerfile and use .
see also: "docker build" requires exactly 1 argument(s)
My issue was that I had a multi line script entry, eg
script:
- >
docker build \
--network host \
-t ${CI_REGISTRY}/kylehqcom/project/image:latest \
....
As soon as I added to a single line, we were all ok. So I guess the line breaks got "entered" after the first line which meant that the subsequent lines were ignored and the error was returned. Also note, that I CI linted via the GitLab ui and all was syntactically correct.

Do I need separate Dockerfiles for py2 and py3?

Currently I have 2 Dockerfiles, Dockerfile-py2:
FROM python:2.7
# stuff
and Dockerfile-py3:
FROM python:3.4
# stuff
where both instances of # stuff are identical.
I build two docker images using an invoke task:
#task
def docker(ctx):
"""Build docker images.
"""
tag = ctx.run('git log -1 --pretty=%h').stdout.strip()
for pyversion in '23':
name = 'myrepo/myimage{pyversion}'.format(pyversion=pyversion)
image = '{name}:{tag}'.format(name=name, tag=tag)
latest = '{name}:latest'.format(name=name)
ctx.run('docker build -t {image} -f Dockerfile-py{pyversion} .'.format(image=image, pyversion=pyversion))
ctx.run('docker tag {image} {latest}'.format(image=image, latest=latest))
ctx.run('docker push {name}'.format(name=name))
is there any way to prevent the duplication of # stuff so I can't get in a situation where someone edits one file but not the other?
Here is one way using Dockerfile ARGS along with docker build --build-arg:
ARG version
FROM python:${version}
RUN echo "$(python --version)"
# stuff
Now you build for python2.7 like so:
docker build -t myimg/tmp --build-arg version=2.7 .
In the output you will see:
Step 3/3 : RUN echo "$(python --version)"
---> Running in 06e28a29a3d2
Python 2.7.16
And in the same way, for python3.4:
docker build -t myimg/tmp --build-arg version=3.4 .
In the output you will see:
Step 3/3 : RUN echo "$(python --version)"
---> Running in 2283edc1b65d
Python 3.4.10
As you can imagine you can also set default values for ${version} in your dockerfile:
ARG version=3.4
FROM python:${version}
RUN echo "$(python --version)"
# stuff
Now if you just do docker build -t myimg/tmp . you will build for python3.4. But you can still override with the previous two commands.
So to answer your question, No, you don't need two different docker files.

Dockerfile capture output of a command

I have the following line in my Dockerfile which is supposed to capture the display number of the host:
RUN DISPLAY_NUMBER="$(echo $DISPLAY | cut -d. -f1 | cut -d: -f2)" && echo $DISPLAY_NUMBER
When I tried to build the Dockerfile, the DISPLAY_NUMBER is empty. But however when I run the same command directly in the terminal I get the see the result. Is there anything that I'm doing wrong here?
Commands specified with RUN are executed when the image is built. There is no display during build hence the output is empty.
You can exchange RUN with ENTRYPOINT then the command is executed when the docker starts.
But how to forward the hosts display to the container is another matter entirely.
Host environment variables cannot be passed during build, only at run-time.
Only build args can be specified by:
first "declaring the arg"
ARG DISPLAY_NUMBER
and then running
docker build . --no-cache -t disp --build-arg DISPLAY_NUMBER=$DISPLAY_NUMBER
You can work around this issue using the envsubst trick
RUN echo $DISPLAY_NUMBER
And on the command line:
envsubst < Dockerfile | docker build . -f -
Which will rewrite the Dockerfile in memory and pass it to Docker with the environment variable changed.
Edit: Note that this solution is pretty useless though, because you probably
want to do this during run-time anyways, because this value should depend on not on where the image is built, but rather where it is run.
I would personally move that logic into your ENTRYPOINT or CMD script.

GitLab CI invalid argument on job for Docker build

So I'm trying to setup my Gitlab CI to trigger a job on git push to build and deploy my Docker. This is the .gitlab-ci.yml file I'm using based on an example from Gitlab docs (Elixir yml).
stages:
- build
build:
before_script:
- docker build -f Dockerfile.build -t ci-project-build-$CI_PROJECT_ID:$CI_BUILD_REF .
- docker create
-v /build/deps
-v /build/_build
-v /build/rel
-v /root/.cache/aceapp/
--name build_data_$CI_PROJECT_ID_$CI_BUILD_REF busybox /bin/true
tags:
- docker
stage: build
script:
- docker run --volumes-from build_data_$CI_PROJECT_ID_$CI_BUILD_REF --rm -t ci-project-build-$CI_PROJECT_ID:$CI_BUILD_REF
The output when pushing to GitLab instance is this:
Running with gitlab-runner 10.7.2 (b5e03c94)
on my.host.rhel.runner 8f724ea7
Using Shell executor...
Running on my.host.local...
Fetching changes...
HEAD is now at 14351c4 Merge branch 'Development' into 'master'
From https://my.host.example/zalmosc/ace-app
14351c4..9fa2d43 master -> origin/master
Checking out 9fa2d435 as master...
Skipping Git submodules setup
$ # Auto DevOps variables and functions # collapsed multi-line command
$ setup_docker
$ build
Logging to GitLab Container Registry with CI credentials...
Login Succeeded
Building Dockerfile-based application...
invalid argument "/master:9fa2d4358e6c426b882e2251aa5a49880013614b" for t: Error parsing reference: "/master:9fa2d4358e6c426b882e2251aa5a49880013614b" is not a valid repository/tag: invalid reference format
See 'docker build --help'.
ERROR: Job failed: exit status 1
I understand the docker tag is not valid (is the before_script: really triggered based on the name?), and I'm looking for help regarding a) a solution b) how I can learn more about the requirements for a pipeline that builds docker based on default settings. Do I need to tag my docker image locally and then somehow add this to my git commit?
The thing is -t is to tag your Docker image. See the docs here.
The tag should be formated like name:version, and you giving it /master:9fa2d4358e6c426b882e2251aa5a49880013614b which is not a valid tag. You could try to delete the / before master
Your tag cannot begin with '/':
$ docker build -f Dockerfile.build -t /master:9fa2d4358e6c426b882e2251aa5a49880013614b .
invalid argument "/master:9fa2d4358e6c426b882e2251aa5a49880013614b" for "-t, --tag" flag: invalid reference format
See 'docker build --help'.
# remove '/'
$ docker build -f Dockerfile.build -t master:9fa2d4358e6c426b882e2251aa5a49880013614b .
Sending build context to Docker daemon 3.584kB
Step 1/3 : FROM ubuntu:16.04
---> 14f60031763d
...
If you are not using the built in registry, you might have to set the CI_REGISTRY_IMAGE value to something. It seems that if you don't se this it gets set to /master and causes this error. you can set this in the CI setting page, or when making a new pipeline. e.g CI_REGISTRY_IMAGE gitlab.com/user/project

Docker Conditional build image

I have to execute the same script to two docker images.
My Dockerfile are:
FROM centos:6
...
and
FROM centos:7
...
Is it possibile to have a single file and pass a parameter, something like:
FROM centos:MYPARAMS
and during the build somethings like that:
docker build --no-cache MYPARAMS=6 .
Thank you
Just to put this in right context, it is now (since May 2017) possible to achieve this with pure docker since 17.05 (https://github.com/moby/moby/pull/31352)
Dockerfile should look like (yes, commands in this order):
ARG APP_VERSION
ARG GIT_VERSION
FROM app:$APP_VERSION-$GIT_VERSION
Then build is invoked with
docker build --build-arg APP_VERSION=1 --build-arg GIT_VERSION=c351dae2 .
Docker will try to base the build on image app:1-c351dae2
Helped me immensely to reduce logic around building images.
From my knowledge, this is not possible with Docker.
The alternative solution is to use a Dockerfile "template", and then parse it using the template library of your choice. (Or even using sed command)
At https://github.com/BITPlan/docker-stackoverflowanswers/tree/master/33351864
you'll find a bash script "build" that works the way you want.
wf#mars:~/source/docker/docker-stackoverflowanswers/33351864>./build -v 6
Sending build context to Docker daemon 3.584 kB
Step 0 : FROM centos:6
6: Pulling from library/centos
fa5be2806d4c: Pull complete
ebdbe10e9b33: Downloading 4.854 MB/66.39 MB
...
wf#mars:~/source/docker/docker-stackoverflowanswers/33351864>./build -v 7
Sending build context to Docker daemon 3.584 kB
Step 0 : FROM centos:7
The essential part is the "here" document used:
#
# parameterized dockerfile
#
dockerfile() {
local l_version="$1"
cat << EOF > Dockerfile
FROM centos:$l_version
EOF
}

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