Examples of Docker ADD

ADD

## ├── Dockerfile
## ├── backend
## │   ├── service
## │   └── service.config
## ├── backend.tar.gz
## └── frontend
##     ├── app
##     └── app.config

FROM debian:8.0

RUN mkdir -p /app/backend

# src dir context is where docker build is run from
#
# 1. single source into a file
ADD backend/service /app/backend/service
ADD backend/service.config /app/backend/service.config

# 2. single source into a directory
ADD backend/service /app/backend/
ADD backend/service.config /app/backend/

# 3. multiple sources
ADD backend/service backend/service.config /app/backend/

# 4. use wildcard
ADD backend/service* /app/backend/

# 5. using Go's filepath.Match http://golang.org/pkg/path/filepath/#Match
ADD backend/?ervice* /app/backend/

# 6. content of backend/ is copied not the dir
ADD backend /app/backend/

# 7. using external url
ADD http://aaronfeng.com/backend.tar.gz /app/backend/foo.tar.gz

# 8. using external url, /app/backend/backend.tar.gz
ADD http://aaronfeng.com/backend.tar.gz /app/backend/

# NOTE: ADD does not support auth
# RUN curl ...

# 9. output tar's structure into destination.  gzip, bzip2
#
# backend.tar.gz
#   backend/
#   backend/service
#   backend/service.config
ADD backend.tar.gz /app

# 10. Add an install script then RUN it.
ADD install.sh /app
RUN /app/install.sh

CMD ls /app/backend