Copy files from host to container when container starts on any host - docker

I want to copy files from host to Docker container when I run the container on any host.
here is my Dockerfile
FROM tomcat:9
EXPOSE 8080
ADD ./target/app.war /tmp/myapp.war
RUN unzip /tmp/myapp.war -d /usr/local/tomcat/webapps/myapp
ENTRYPOINT ["cp", "-r", "/data/*", "/usr/local/tomcat/webapps/myapp/data"]
After building the docker image
docker build -t myappimage .
I am running it with:
docker run --mount type=bind,source=d:/data,destination=/data --rm -it -p 8081:8080 myappimage
but this throws error cp: cannot stat '/data/*': No such file or directory
I am not sure why mounting is not working, it should copy all files from my host directory d:/data to Docker container directory /data when a container starts.

This command in ENTRYPOINT is run in Docker container.
You can try:
FROM tomcat:9
EXPOSE 8080
ADD ./target/app.war /tmp/myapp.war
RUN unzip /tmp/myapp.war -d /usr/local/tomcat/webapps/myapp
COPY /data /usr/local/tomcat/webapps/myapp/data/

I hope /usr/local/tomcat/webapps/myapp/data directory exist in image prior to copying. The command seems to working fine on my machine (Mac). Not sure if it's the d:/ that is causing the issue.
Also you can try using the -v option with a z flag (It solved the same issue for me), assuming you are inside d: directory
docker run -v "$(pwd)"/data:/data:z --rm -it -p 8081:8080 myappimage
With -v it will create an endpoint for you. You can read here

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Docker Apache Mounts and Permissions

I've just started dabbling with Docker. I notice that when directly pulling the PHP-Apache image and mounting a volume, this works fine:
docker run -d -p 80:80 --name php-try -v C:\Users\me\Desktop\php-try:/var/www/html php:7.2-apache
But when I build an image with a Dockerfile, copying the contents of the working directory to the usual /var/www/html folder, and then try to run a container with a volume or bind mount docker run -d -p 80:80 php-try -v C:\Users\me\Desktop\php-try:/var/www/html the container simply exits/doesn't run. Without the attempt to mount a volume, it runs fine.
The Dockerfile is simply:
FROM php:7.2-apache
COPY . /var/www/html/
Grateful for any help with this.

In Docker while binding host directory with container directory I am facing a problem

I am trying to bindmount a directory form docker container to my host directory called /home, the docker container directory which I am trying to sync is named as /test and it contains a file called new.txt.
My Dockerfile is in /home/sampledocker1 directory. Its contents are as follows:
FROM ubuntu:18.04
RUN ["/bin/bash", "-c", "mkdir test"]
COPY new.txt test
Here, local file new.txt available in current path.
I executed the below commands first I built the docker image and started the container as follows:
docker build -t sample1:latest . # image is created properly
docker run -t -d -v /home:/test sample1:latest /bin/bash
After creating container with mount option, I am expecting that the file new.txt in test folder of container would appear in my /home directory but it did not.
Here bindmount is not happening properly.
By running -v option you actually override directory that already exists in the docker file.
If you run:
docker run -ti sample1:latest /bin/bash
You will find /test/new.txt file because it is added to the image layer with COPY command on the Dockerfile.
If you run:
docker run -ti -v /home:/test sample1:latest /bin/bash
You will find the contents of your computers /home directory in the /test of the docker container, because -v (mouted volume) overrides original image layer created with the COPY command on the Dockerfile.
THE SUGGESTION: Remove both COPY and mkdir commands from your Dockerfile:
FROM ubuntu:18.04
# Nothing at all
And mount your current directory with your docker run command:
docker run -ti -v $(pwd):/test sample1:latest /bin/bash
Since your Dockerfile is empty, equivalent command is just running ubuntu:18:04 image:
docker run -ti -v $(pwd):/test ubuntu:18.04 /bin/bash
p.s. I changed -d (detached) to -i(interactive) on the example to make sure that you enter docker image as soon as you run docker run command.

How to copy HTML onto index.html in docker

Here is my docker file I was wondering how can I copy the local html code which is in the same directory as my dockerfile. This command somehow did not work as when I ran a curl on my docker IP
it was not my html code it was the default code.
FROM httpd
EXPOSE 80
COPY public-html.html /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/
The problem is that you built the image, but did not run it.
Example to run it by mounting the file as a volume into the container:
docker run -it --rm -d -p 8080:80 --name web -v ./public-html.html:/usr/share/nginx/html nginx
Now you can do a curl http://localhost:8080.
Example for building it:
FROM nginx:latest
COPY ./public-html.html /usr/share/nginx/html/index.html
More information here

Docker file in host machine not available in container using bind volume

I am facing an issue where after runnig the container and using bind mount to mount the directory on host to container I am not able to see new files created in host machine inside container.Below is my project structure.
The python code creates a file inside the container which should be available inside the host machine too however this does happen when I start the container with below command. However updates to python code and html is available inside the container.
sudo docker container run -p 5000:5000 --name flaskapp --volume feedback1:/app/feedback/ --volume /home/deepak/PycharmProjects/NewDockerProject/sampleapp:/app flask_image
However after starting the container using below command, everything seems to work fine. I can see all the files from container to host and vice versa(new created , edited).I git this command from docker in the month of lunches book.
sudo docker container run --mount type=bind,source=/home/deepak/PycharmProjects/NewDockerProject/sampleapp,target=/app -p 5000:5000 --name flaskapp
Below is the content of my dockerfile
FROM python:3.8-alpine
WORKDIR /app
COPY ./requirements.txt .
RUN pip install -r requirements.txt
COPY . .
CMD ["python","main.py"]
Could someone please help me in figuring out the difference between the two commands ? I am using ubuntu. Thank you
In my case i got working volumes using following docker run args (but i am running without --mount type=bind):
docker run -it ... -v mysql_data:/var/lib/mysql -v storage:/usr/shared/app_storage
where:
mysql_data is a volume name
/var/lib/mysql path inside container machine
you could list volumes as:
docker volume ls
and inspect them to see where it points on your system (usually /var/lib/docker/volumes/{volume_nanme}/_data):
docker volume inspect mysql_data
to create volume use following command:
docker volume create {volume_name}

Docker not saving a file created using python - Flask application

I created a Flask Application. This application receives a XML from a url and saves it:
response = requests.get(base_url)
with open('currencies.xml', 'wb') as file:
file.write(response.content)
When I run the application without Docker, the file currencies.xml is correctly created inside my app folder.
However, this behaviour does not occur when I use docker.
In docker I run the following commands:
docker build -t my-api-docker:latest .
docker run -p 5000:5000 my-api-docker ~/Desktop/myApiDocker # This is where I want the file to be saved: inside the main Flask folder
When I run the second command, I get:
docker: Error response from daemon: OCI runtime create failed: container_linux.go:345: starting container process caused "exec: \"/Users/name/Desktop/myApiDocker\": stat /Users/name/Desktop/myApiDocker: no such file or directory": unknown.
ERRO[0001] error waiting for container: context canceled
But If I run:
docker build -t my-api-docker:latest .
docker run -p 5000:5000 my-api-docker # Without specifying the PATH
I can access the website (but it is pretty useless without the file currencies.xml
Dockerfile
FROM python:3.7
RUN pip install --upgrade pip
COPY ./requirements.txt /app/requirements.txt
WORKDIR /app
RUN pip install -r requirements.txt
COPY . /app
EXPOSE 5000
CMD [ "flask", "run", "--host=0.0.0.0" ]
When you
docker run -p 5000:5000 my-api-docker ~/Desktop/myApiDocker
Docker interprets everything after the image name (my-api-docker) as the command to run. It runs /Users/name/Desktop/myApiDocker as a command, instead of what you have as the CMD in the Dockerfile, and when that path doesn't exist in the container, you get the error you see.
It's a little unlikely you'll be able to pass this path to your flask run command as a command-line argument. A typical way of dealing with this is by using an environment variable instead. In your code,
download_dir = os.environ.get('DOWNLOAD_DIR', '.')
currencies_xml = os.path.join(download_dir, 'currencies.xml')
with open(currencies_xml, 'wb') as file:
...
Then when you start your container, you can pass that as an environment variable with the docker run -e option. Note that this names a path inside the container; there's no particular need for this to match the path on the host.
docker run \
-p 5000:5000 \
-e DOWNLOAD_DIR=/data \
-v $HOME/Desktop/myApiDocker:/data \
my-api-docker
It's also fairly common to put an ENV statement in your Dockerfile or otherwise pick a fixed path for this, and just specify that your image's interface is that it will download the file into whatever is mounted on /data.
When you docker run the image, the process' context is the container's file system not your host's file system. So my-api-docker ~/Desktop/myApiDocker (attempts to) place the file in the container's (!) ~/Desktop.
Instead you need to mount one of your host's directories into the container's file system and store the file in the mounted directory.
Something like:
docker run ... \
--volume=[HOST-PATH]:[CONTAINER-PATH] \
... \
my-api-docker [CONTAINER-PATH]/thefile
The container then writes the file to [CONTAINER-PATH]/thefile but this is mapped to the host's [HOST-PATH]/thefile.
NB The values for [HOST-PATH] and [CONTAINER-PATH] must be absolute not relative paths.
You may prove this behavior to yourself using e.g. either python:3.7 or busybox:
# List my host's root
ls -l /
# List the container's root
docker run --rm busybox ls -l /
# Mount the host's /tmp into the container's /tmp
ls -l /tmp
docker run --rm --volume=/tmp:/tmp busybox ls -l /tmp
HTH!

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