trying to build the docker image from dist/src.python.etc as the context, it cant follow the symlinks to ../pants.d/

You want to archive the bundle. See

./pants bundle.py --help

, but

./pants bundle.py --archive=tar ...

will tar up the bundle dir in

dist

leaving you a top level

dist/my-app.tar

. You can then bring that into your image with

COPY

and

RUN

or

ADD

.

Thanks