fly deploy using dockerfile fails

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Trying to deploy my app using a dockerfile.
While using “docker build .” is working, “fly deploy” - is not.
Adding “–local-only” does not help.

I get the following messages:

#10 137.1 glob error [Error: EACCES: permission denied, scandir ‘/root/.npm/_logs’] {
#10 137.1 errno: -13,
#10 137.1 code: ‘EACCES’,
#10 137.1 syscall: ‘scandir’,
#10 137.1 path: ‘/root/.npm/_logs’
#10 137.1 }
#10 141.5 npm ERR! code EACCES
#10 141.5 npm ERR! syscall lstat
#10 141.5 npm ERR! path /root/.npm/_cacache/content-v2/sha512/2d/88/d9b040e109d6044fd8a416ee9d54f1a9d981fd0de8178dd253a12cc3f6b3ba7f2e2a891605a32118c29b3cf0eb1e2653f297634e7b6889ba11212fb22910
#10 141.5 npm ERR! errno -13
#10 141.5 npm ERR!
#10 141.5 npm ERR! Your cache folder contains root-owned files, due to a bug in
#10 141.5 npm ERR! previous versions of npm which has since been addressed.
#10 141.5 npm ERR!
#10 141.5 npm ERR! To permanently fix this problem, please run:
#10 141.5 npm ERR! sudo chown -R 501:20 “/root/.npm”

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Sounds like an issue with file permissions perhaps related to packaging up files for use on a build (if I had to guess).

Part of the error message seems to indicate updating npm may fix it - is that possible in your setup? (the answer depends a bit on how the dockerfile is configured and which base images are used)

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Thanks for the answer!
But I suspect the problem is related to how fly deploy executes Docker, for the reason that local docker build . works perfectly, while fly deploy - does not.

This is the Dockerfile:

FROM node:16.13.1
RUN apt-get update
RUN npm install -g npm@8.19.2
WORKDIR /app
COPY . ./
RUN npm run install-production
RUN npm run build-production
EXPOSE 8080
CMD npm run run-production
4

The only thing I suspect is COPY . ./ which copies the node_modules folder - which is not recommended.

Thanks again!

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Looks like it is an issue related to the different way “flyctl” treats the “.dockerignore” file…

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To my knowledge the .dockerignore file is just being used by docker itself, and fly doesn’t actually attempt to read/parse it.

Can you show your .dockerignore file here? I’m assuming node_modules is defined within it?

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So … were you able to resolve this?