docker: “build” requires 1 argument. See 'docker build --help'

Question

Trying to follow the instructions for building a docker image from the docker website.

https://docs.docker.com/examples/running_redis_service/

this is the er

Answer 1

In my case this error was happening in a Gitlab CI pipeline when I was passing multiple Gitlab env variables to docker build with --build-arg flags.

Turns out that one of the variables had a space in it which was causing the error. It was difficult to find since the pipeline logs just showed the $VARIABLE_NAME.

Make sure to quote the environment variables so that spaces get handled correctly.

Change from:

--build-arg VARIABLE_NAME=$VARIABLE_NAME

to:

--build-arg VARIABLE_NAME="$VARIABLE_NAME"