Machine: `docker-machine create --driver amazonec2 machine-name` fails to start docker daemon

Created on 17 Jul 2017 · 12Comments · Source: docker/machine

Docker version 17.06.0-ce, build 02c1d87
docker-machine version 0.12.0, build 45c69ad

I'm relatively new to docker, but this command worked fine for me prior to about a week ago. I assume it has something to do with a recent update? I see similar issues being reported with other drivers, but none yet for amazonec2.

docker-machine successfully creates a new ec2 instance and I can ssh to the machine, but the output of docker-machine ls indicates a certificate error.

Debug output (docker-machine -D create --driver amazonec2 machine-name) is insanely long so I've uploaded the output to https://gist.github.com/zazazack/7afe7f30a9f83c290d029468f3e82a26.

I believe the following open issues are related:

4197

4144

4189

➤ docker-machine ls
NAME         ACTIVE   DRIVER       STATE     URL                         SWARM   DOCKER        ERRORS
aws-docker   -        amazonec2    Running   tcp://54.90.147.183:2376            Unknown       Unable to query docker version: Cannot connect to the docker engine endpoint

I've added the ec2 instance user (ubuntu) to the docker group:

➤ sudo usermod -aG docker $(whoami)

I've attemtped to regenerate certs:

➤ docker-machine regenerate-certs aws-docker
Error getting SSH command to check if the daemon is up: ssh command error:
command : sudo docker version
err     : exit status 1
output  : Client:
 Version:      17.06.0-ce
 API version:  1.30
 Go version:   go1.8.3
 Git commit:   02c1d87
 Built:        Fri Jun 23 21:23:31 2017
 OS/Arch:      linux/amd64
Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix:///var/run/docker.sock. Is the docker daemon running?

docker-machine rm machine-name also produces an error and doesn't delete the aws ssh key-pair provisioned to the machine upon deletion (it used to):

➤ docker-machine rm aws-docker
About to remove aws-docker
WARNING: This action will delete both local reference and remote instance.
Are you sure? (y/n): y
Error removing host "aws-docker": unexpected EOF

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zazazack

Most helpful comment

@shin- I can confirm that these issues still occur in v0.12.2

brandontamm on 17 Jul 2017

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I believe this is related to docker-machine create issue that is being reported in multiple recent tickets:

brandontamm on 17 Jul 2017

EC2 issues are fixed in 0.12.2. See the releases page to upgrade. It should be included in the toolbox release coming this week.

shin- on 17 Jul 2017

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@shin- I can confirm that these issues still occur in v0.12.2

brandontamm on 17 Jul 2017

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@brandontamm With the EC2 driver?

shin- on 17 Jul 2017

No sorry, with Digitalocean driver like in https://github.com/docker/machine/issues/4189 (but I'd assume with any driver..)

brandontamm on 17 Jul 2017

Unfortunately, while drivers do share a large amount of code, there are noticeable differences between them which can cause issues to appear with one but not another.

Since I actually tested EC2 + 0.12.2, I can confirm that that specific issue is fixed.

shin- on 17 Jul 2017

@shin- Confirming docker-machine create --driver amazonec2 machine-name works in docker-machine version 0.12.2, build 9371605 on macOS.

Note: for anyone using the Homebrew version of docker-machine, to use 0.12.2 I had to do

brew link --overwrite docker-machine

zazazack on 18 Jul 2017

Still having the same issue with the Google driver, should I create a new issue?

christianbundy on 26 Jul 2017

+1 I wonder when they will update the docker-machine version from 0.12.0 to 0.12.1+ to solve this issue.

minac on 10 Aug 2017

Yeah, this repo hasn't had a new commit in 3+ weeks, that's a long to be on the bleeding edge without any bugfixes. I hope the project isn't being deprecated in favor of something new.

christianbundy on 10 Aug 2017

@minac what are you talking about? We released 0.12.2 weeks ago.

shin- on 10 Aug 2017

Sorry I wasn't clear, the issue was on this repo. Docker for Mac is not
updated with this docker image, that's the problem. :(

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