dockerignore – Tarik Billa

.dockerignore pattern to exclude files in all subdirectories

April 11, 2023 by Tarik

Patterns like *.pyc are matched only at the beginning of the path, or for the files directly below the context directory, but not recursively. To make it work recursively the **/ syntax must be used: # Ignore generated files **/*.pyc The reference at How to create a dockerignore file doesn’t put that clear enough. Finally, … Read more

How to test dockerignore file?

January 7, 2023 by Tarik

To expand on VonC’s suggestion, here’s a sample build command you can use to create an image with the current folder’s build context: docker image build –no-cache -t build-context -f – . <<EOF FROM busybox WORKDIR /build-context COPY . . CMD find . EOF Once created, run the container and inspect the contents of the … Read more