Docker build gives “unable to prepare context: context must be a directory: /Users/tempUser/git/docker/Dockerfile”

Question

I have a Dockerfile that is supposed to build an Ubuntu image. But whenever I run

docker build -t ubuntu-test:latest ./Dockerfile

it shows the fo

Answer 1

I face the same issue. I am using docker version:17.09.0-ce.

I follow below steps:

1. Create Dockerfile and added commands for creating docker image
2. Go to directory where we have created Dockfile
3. execute below command $ sudo docker build -t ubuntu-test:latest .

It resolved issue and image created successsfully.

Note: build command depend on docker version as well as which build option we are using. :)