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

One of the reasons for me getting an error was the file name make sure the file name is Dockerfile So i figured it out, hope it might help someone.