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2019-10-14 Docker

Docker Portainer Build Invalid Reference Format

Docker error on portainer Build invalid reference format#

I got this error when trying to deploy a stack. I set the docker-compose.yml file to use and link to the git repo I get this error:

Build invalid reference format

So my first thought was that the docker-compose version was too high 3.7, but that wasn’t the problem.

The problem was that this docker compose was structured for development - ie. it relied on the code being local and building the image.

When you deploy to production there is not a bound mount volume to build. There shoould only be an image that is already in your registry to pull and set commands or env variables.

So I change the docker-compose.yml from:

web:
  build: .
  command: python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000
  volumes:
    - .:/code
  ports:
    - "8000:8000"
  env_file:
    - ./env.dev
  depends_on:
    - db

and added a production.yml:

web:
  command: /bin/bash run.sh
  image: registry.example.com:5000/my_image:0.1
  ports:
    - "8000:8000"
  env_file:
    - ./env.dev
  depends_on:
    - db

So it is now pulling the image from the repo and running the command to set it up

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