Docker: How to use bash with an Alpine based docker image?

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diugalde picture diugalde · Dec 3, 2016 · Viewed 169.5k times · Source

I created a docker image from openjdk:8-jdk-alpine but when I try to execute simple commands I get the following errors:

RUN bash
/bin/sh: bash: not found

RUN ./gradlew build
env: can't execute 'bash': No such file or directory

Answer

anubhava picture anubhava · Dec 3, 2016

Alpine docker image doesn't have bash installed by default. You will need to add following commands to get bash:

RUN apk update && apk add bash

If youre using Alpine 3.3+ then you can just do

RUN apk add --no-cache bash

to keep docker image size small. (Thanks to comment from @sprkysnrky)

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