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Missing variable becomes empty in Docker

DockerCompose AdvancedInterpolationintermediate

What this snippet does

An unset variable interpolates to an empty string and the image reference becomes invalid.

Expected output

WARN: The "TAG" variable is not set. Defaulting to a blank string.

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