Docker Alpine /bin/sh apk not found

Question

I am building a new Docker image with:

FROM alpine:3.4
RUN apk upgrade --update

However, its failing with the error:

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Answer 1

I ran into something like this. It completely blew my mind, and I was questioning my sanity for a bit until I realized that /sbin wasn't in my container's PATH.

If you type command -v apk in an interactive session in your container's base image and compare that directory with the container's $PATH that should get you squared away.

If command -v apk doesn't work for you, you could try to find it via

find / -name apk -type f -exec dirname "{}" ";"

To the best of my knowledge this is always in /sbin. However you get there, just ensure that the apk binary's location is part of $PATH

Answer 2

In the end we upgraded our projects to use this Docker Maven plugin: https://github.com/fabric8io/fabric8-maven-plugin. No issue thus far.