Cannot configure Prometheus with custom yml file (Error: OCI runtime create failed)-CodePudding

I am total new to Prometheus and Docker and I having issues in configuring Prometheus with my custom yml file. The latter file is stored at "D:\Projects\Msc-Thesis-Project\tmp". Then I am trying to run the following command.

docker run --net=host \
-v /tmp/prometheus.yml:/etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml \
prom/prometheus

but I receive the following error

docker: Error response from daemon: failed to create shim task: OCI runtime create failed: >runc create failed: unable to start container process: error during container init: error >mounting "/tmp/prometheus.yml" to rootfs at "/etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml": mount >/tmp/prometheus.yml:/etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml (via /proc/self/fd/6), flags: 0x5000: >not a directory: unknown: Are you trying to mount a directory onto a file (or vice-versa)? >Check if the specified host path exists and is the expected type.

Don't know what I am doing wrong. Can you please help me???

CodePudding user response：

It's best advisable to write the absolute path, including the letter of your drive that the file is stored, like this,

docker run --net=host -v /mnt/c/tmp/prometheus.yml:/etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml prom/prometheus

Replace /c/ with the letter of your drive, including the names of folders that go beyond that, until you reach the yml file, to get the absolute path.