Compose: CoreOS: containers not restarting after reboot

[cookandy]

Hello,

I am using Docker Compose 1.5.2 on CoreOS stable (835.13.0), and I notice that if I have restart: always in my docker-compose.yml file, the containers don't start automatically upon reboot.

However, as soon as I login and issue a docker command (such as docker ps or even docker version) the containers start up as expected. It's like I have to call docker once before compose kicks in.

I installed compose by using this method:

curl -L https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.5.2/run.sh > /opt/bin/docker-compose
chmod +x /opt/bin/docker-compose

It sounds similar to this issue, but not exactly the same. Any ideas?

[dnephin]

As mentioned in that issue (https://github.com/docker/compose/issues/872#issuecomment-137819288) once compose starts the containers it isn't involved in the restart process so the issue is very likely with docker engine, or possibly how coreos is managing it.

[cookandy]

So does this issue belong under the docker project? It seems more docker-compose specific.

[dnephin]

This sounds more like an issue with CoreOS to me. It's definitely not an issue with Compose, because Compose is not involved in the restart process.

[cookandy]

Ok, I may need to reach out to that community. One thing to note: Compose is actually running as a Docker container on CoreOS. As far as I knew, Docker containers should automatically start on CoreOS, which is why I thought it might be a Compose issue.

[cookandy]

Hello,

This was indeed a configuration change within CoreOS. For the benefit of others, the solution was to enable the Docker service in systemd:

systemctl enable docker.service
systemctl start docker.service