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ERROR: failed to solve: process "/bin/sh -c yarn install --production" did not complete successfully: exit code: 1

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Issue type
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Tech stack
docker, javascript
Domain
devops, documentation

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Start with the Step 3 getting-started tutorial and its Dockerfile, then reproduce the docker build -t getting-started . command on the reported Windows setup. Investigate the exec format error during yarn install --production; done means the tutorial build succeeds on the supported setup or clearly documents the required prerequisite and workaround.

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Description

Hello, i'm trying to use Docker in window 11 when following the getting started tutorial from this site: https://docs.docker.com/get-started/02_our_app/.
But in step 3, after using command: docker build -t getting-started, I'm getting an issue:

ERROR: failed to solve: process "/bin/sh -c yarn install --production" did not complete successfully: exit code: 1
This is full console screen:
PS D:\Docker\getting-started-app> docker build -t getting-started .
[+] Building 3.7s (12/12) FINISHED docker:default
=> [internal] load build definition from Dockerfile 0.0s
=> => transferring dockerfile: 188B 0.0s
=> resolve image config for docker.io/docker/dockerfile:1 1.7s
=> [auth] docker/dockerfile:pull token for registry-1.docker.io 0.0s
=> CACHED docker-image://docker.io/docker/dockerfile:1@sha256:ac85f380a63b13dfcefa89046420e1781752bab202122f8f50032edf31be0021 0.0s
=> [internal] load metadata for docker.io/library/node:18-alpine 1.6s
=> [auth] library/node:pull token for registry-1.docker.io 0.0s
=> [internal] load .dockerignore 0.0s
=> => transferring context: 2B 0.0s
=> [1/4] FROM docker.io/library/node:18-alpine@sha256:ca9f6cb0466f9638e59e0c249d335a07c867cd50c429b5c7830dda1bed584649 0.0s
=> [internal] load build context 0.0s
=> => transferring context: 4.33kB 0.0s
=> CACHED [2/4] WORKDIR /app 0.0s
=> CACHED [3/4] COPY . . 0.0s
=> ERROR [4/4] RUN yarn install --production 0.3s

[4/4] RUN yarn install --production:
0.272 exec /bin/sh: exec format error

Dockerfile:6

4 | WORKDIR /app
5 | COPY . .
6 | >>> RUN yarn install --production
7 | CMD ["node", "src/index.js"]
8 | EXPOSE 3000

ERROR: failed to solve: process "/bin/sh -c yarn install --production" did not complete successfully: exit code: 1

Please help me solve it! Thank you

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