How to copy folders to docker image from Dockerfile?

Question

I tried the following command in my Dockerfile: COPY * / and got mighty surprised at the result. Seems the naive docker code traverses the directories from the glob

Answer 1

the simplest way:

sudo docker cp path/on/your/machine adam_ubuntu:/root/path_in_container

Note putting into the root path if you are copying something that needs to be picked up by the root using ~.