Error: Directory path does not exist: file:///data/store_retail , Lab: deploy transformer pipeline using sample

Hello,

I am going through the Data Ops Platform Fundamentals course, and currently on Lab: Deploy a Transformer Engine with a Sample Pipeline. 

I have made sure my deployment is up and running, transformer engine is up. Created a pipeline by using sample pipeline as per lab steps. 

I am getting these validation errors (attached) - Error: Directory path does not exist: file:///data/store_retail

Am I missing any steps?

Some more info:

I have not changed any parameter settings.  

The runtime env for the pipeline runtime conf - It shows origin_directory=/data/store_retail

The origin shows: Directory Path = file://${origin_directory}

The transformer engine is running. It does not show any directory /data/store_retail

bash-5.0# hostname
46ab0f17ee4f
bash-5.0# ls /data/
transformer
bash-5.0# ls /data/transformer/
blobstore                      meteringSnapshot.json          pipelines                      runInfo                        stats.json
control-hub-pushed.properties  opt-stats.json                 runHistory                     sdc.id                         statsSnapshot.json
bash-5.0#