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

You can also run docker build with -f option

docker build -t ubuntu-test:latest -f Dockerfile.custom .