Error response from daemon: Dockerfile parse error line 1: unknown instruction: #

Question

Im new to docker and trying to learn it. Im following this tutorial: https://docs.docker.com/get-started/part2/#apppy

So I installed Docker on Windows. Created 3 fil

Answer 1

I just tested the same and by default VSCode seems to save the Dockerfile with UTF-16 LE encoding.

Resaving the file as UTF-8 allowed docker build to run without error.