Google cloud or Docker not recognizing folder

Question

I have a project with the following strucure :

vineetkalghatgi@vinux:~/personal-projects/bertQA_server$ ls
bert-server-env  cloudbuild.yaml  Dockerfile  main.py  mymodel  Procfile  __pycache__  README.md  requirements.txt  target

My .dockerignore:

Dockerfile
README.md
*.pyc
*.pyo
*.pyd
__pycache__
.pytest_cache
bert-server-env

This is my Dockerfile

FROM tensorflow/tensorflow

# Allow statements and log messages to immediately appear in the Knative logs
ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED True

# Copy local code to the container image.
ENV APP_HOME /app
WORKDIR $APP_HOME
ADD mymodel .
COPY . .

# Install dependencies
RUN apt-get update \
    && apt-get upgrade -y \
    && apt-get autoremove -y \
    && apt-get clean

# Install production dependencies.
RUN pip3 install -r requirements.txt

# Run the web service on container startup. Here we use the gunicorn
# webserver, with one worker process and 8 threads.
# For environments with multiple CPU cores, increase the number of workers
# to be equal to the cores available.
# Timeout is set to 0 to disable the timeouts of the workers to allow Cloud Run to handle instance scaling.
CMD exec gunicorn --bind :$PORT --workers 1 --threads 8 --timeout 0 main:app

I previously just had COPY . . COPY . . without the ADD and noticed that the 'mymodel' folder was not getting copied. If i run gcloud build submit . --tag <my-gcr.io-container gcloud build submit . --tag <my-gcr.io-container I get the following error:

Step 5/9 : ADD mymodel .
ADD failed: file not found in build context or excluded by .dockerignore: stat mymodel: file does not exist

And I am able to build the image locally with docker build with no issues.

Answer 1

With gcloud build submit , if you have a Dockerfile in the working directory, you don't need a cloudbuild.yaml . Because you have a cloudbuild.yaml , I suspect that it is taking priority.

Q1: What is the content of cloudbuild.yaml ?

Cloud SDK uses a .gcloudignore file to ignore files that are eg uploaded to Cloud Build.

Q2: Do you have a .gcloudignore file or .gitignore file?

It'd be useful to ls -1a (where 1==one) or l=lowercase L will show hidden files too.