[Fixed]-Serve large dataset w/ Docker, nginx, & django

build starts by creating a tarball from the context directory (in your case .) and sending that tarball to the server. The tarball is created in the tmp directory I believe, which is probably why you’re running out of space when trying to build.

When you’re working with large datasets the recommended approach is to use a volume. You can use a bind mount volume to mount the files from the host.

Since you’re providing the data using a volume, you’ll want to exclude it from the image context. To do this create a .dockerignore in the . directory. In that file add all the paths with large data (.git, media, static).

Once you’ve ignored the large directories the build should work.