Kaniko doesn't support symlinks in Dockerfile

[Kifok]

Actual behavior I've found out that kaniko doesn't support symlinks it's make issues like on screenshot below.

Expected behavior In my approach, we need to build docker images without any changes in Dockerfile

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior: You should create dockerfile with symlinks like below

Additional Information

• Dockerfile

  
  FROM nginxinc/nginx-unprivileged:alpine-slim

COPY --from=builder /app/dist /usr/share/nginx/html RUN rm /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf COPY ./nginx.conf /etc/nginx/conf.d

RUN chown -R nginx:nginx /var/cache/nginx && \ chown -R nginx:nginx /var/log/nginx && \ chown -R nginx:nginx /etc/nginx/conf.d && \ touch /var/run/nginx.pid && \ chown -R nginx:nginx /var/run/nginx.pid

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[Kifok]

Adding more information, this is build command i've used to build docker image docker run \ -v $PWD:/build \ gcr.io/kaniko-project/executor:debug \ --dockerfile=Dockerfile \ --tar-path /build/image.tar \ --no-push \ --context /build \ --destination myimage:1.2

Also if i build via gitlab-ci i get this kind of error:

Build command for gitlab: /kaniko/executor --context ./ --destination ${IMAGE}:${IMAGE_TAG}

[lordkekz]

I think I'm missing some context on your issue. Which file exactly is a symlink in your container? I don't see any ln calls or anything else to indicate that there even is a symlink involved.

I'm facing a possibly related issue, I'm getting error building image: could not save file: copying ownership: chown /kaniko/1/<path>: no such file or directory which I suspect might be due to some symlink pointing to a non-existent file. I have confirmed that the file doesn't exist and doesn't need to exist.