Add A File From A URL To Images

Create Dockerfile

# Build from base image
FROM ubuntu:latest

# Add file from URL to tmp directory
ADD ["https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chrisalbon/notes/master/LICENSE.txt", "/tmp/"]

Build Image From Dockerfile

Build the Dockerfile (docker build) in the current directory (.) and call the image chrisalbon/ubuntu:file-from-url (--tag chrisalbon/ubuntu:file-from-url).

docker build --tag chrisalbon/ubuntu:file-from-url .

Sending build context to Docker daemon  4.608kB
Step 1/2 : FROM ubuntu:latest
 ---> 1e4467b07108
Step 2/2 : ADD ["https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chrisalbon/notes/master/LICENSE.txt", "/tmp/"]
Downloading     223B
 ---> 9ef46cc7fd3a
Successfully built 9ef46cc7fd3a
Successfully tagged chrisalbon/ubuntu:file-from-url

Run Docker Container From Image

Start and create (docker run) an interative (-it) Docker container from the image called chrisalbon/ubuntu:file-from-url. Remove the container after it stops (-rm)

docker run --rm -it chrisalbon/ubuntu:file-from-url

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View Destination Directory

View all files and folders (ls) that displays using long format and shows hidden files (-al) in the directory tmp.

ls -al tmp/

total 12
drwxrwxrwt 1 root root 4096 Aug 20 00:38 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Aug 20 00:42 ..
-rw------- 1 root root  223 Jan  1  1970 LICENSE.txt