ARG REGISTRY=gcr.io ARG REPO=google-appengine ARG WORD=hello ARG W0RD2=hey FROM ${REGISTRY}/${REPO}/debian9 as stage1 # Should evaluate WORD and create /tmp/hello ARG WORD RUN touch /${WORD} FROM ${REGISTRY}/${REPO}/debian9 COPY --from=stage1 /hello /tmp # /tmp/hey should not get created without the ARG statement # Use -d 0 to force a time change because of stat resolution RUN touch -d 0 /tmp/${WORD2}