How to call non-interactively docker-compose run command - SSH? - docker

Question

Description of the situation : I have a Ubuntu VM running on remote computer B. I can access this computer B via SSH executed on my host (computer A).
When I enter an interactive shell via SSH on computer B, I can execute all my docker commands without any trouble, the steps are the following :
ssh user#remote_IP (enters interactively in the remote shell)
docker-compose run -d --name wfirst --user 1000:1000 container (compose a docker container and starts it)
This works perfectly, my container is mounted, up and running.
However, if I try to run that command in a non-interactive way by writing in my host terminal :
ssh user#remoteIP "cd /path_to_docker_file;docker-compose run -d --name wfirst --user 1000:1000 container"
The command does not succeed, my container is not mounted and does not run. I was able to get more information by using the "--verbose" flag on the docker-compose command.
Here the interesting part of the output of the successful method :
compose.config.config.find: Using configuration files: ./docker-compose.yml
WARNING: compose.config.environment.__getitem__: The DISPLAY variable is not set. Defaulting to a blank string.
WARNING: compose.config.environment.__getitem__: The NO_PROXY variable is not set. Defaulting to a blank string.
docker.utils.config.find_config_file: Trying paths: ['/home/user/.docker/config.json', '/home/user/.dockercfg']
docker.utils.config.find_config_file: No config file found
docker.utils.config.find_config_file: Trying paths: ['/home/user/.docker/config.json', '/home/user/.dockercfg']
docker.utils.config.find_config_file: No config file found
urllib3.connectionpool._new_conn: Starting new HTTP connection (1): localhost:2375
urllib3.connectionpool._make_request: http://localhost:2375 "GET /v1.25/version HTTP/1.1" 200 758
compose.cli.command.get_client: docker-compose version 1.21.0, build unknown
docker-py version: 3.4.1
CPython version: 3.7.5
OpenSSL version: OpenSSL 1.1.1c 28 May 2019
compose.cli.command.get_client: Docker base_url: http://localhost:2375
...
We can see that a HTTP connection to docker is successfully established. The command then continues its execution and is able to create the container from the docker image.
Here the output of the failing method :
compose.config.config.find: Using configuration files: ./docker-compose.yml
compose.config.environment.__getitem__: The DISPLAY variable is not set. Defaulting to a blank string.
compose.config.environment.__getitem__: The NO_PROXY variable is not set. Defaulting to a blank string.
docker.utils.config.find_config_file: Trying paths: ['/home/user/.docker/config.json', '/home/user/.dockercfg']
docker.utils.config.find_config_file: No config file found
docker.utils.config.find_config_file: Trying paths: ['/home/user/.docker/config.json', '/home/user/.dockercfg']
docker.utils.config.find_config_file: No config file found
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 384, in _make_request
six.raise_from(e, None)
File "<string>", line 3, in raise_from
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 380, in _make_request
httplib_response = conn.getresponse()
File "/usr/lib/python3.7/http/client.py", line 1344, in getresponse
response.begin()
File "/usr/lib/python3.7/http/client.py", line 306, in begin
version, status, reason = self._read_status()
File "/usr/lib/python3.7/http/client.py", line 267, in _read_status
line = str(self.fp.readline(_MAXLINE + 1), "iso-8859-1")
File "/usr/lib/python3.7/socket.py", line 589, in readinto
return self._sock.recv_into(b)
socket.timeout: timed out
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/adapters.py", line 449, in send
timeout=timeout
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 638, in urlopen
_stacktrace=sys.exc_info()[2])
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/util/retry.py", line 367, in increment
raise six.reraise(type(error), error, _stacktrace)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/six.py", line 693, in reraise
raise value
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 600, in urlopen
chunked=chunked)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 386, in _make_request
self._raise_timeout(err=e, url=url, timeout_value=read_timeout)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 306, in _raise_timeout
raise ReadTimeoutError(self, url, "Read timed out. (read timeout=%s)" % timeout_value)
urllib3.exceptions.ReadTimeoutError: UnixHTTPConnectionPool(host='localhost', port=None): Read timed out. (read timeout=60)
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/docker-compose", line 11, in <module>
load_entry_point('docker-compose==1.21.0', 'console_scripts', 'docker-compose')()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/compose/cli/main.py", line 71, in main
command()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/compose/cli/main.py", line 124, in perform_command
project = project_from_options('.', options)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/compose/cli/command.py", line 41, in project_from_options
compatibility=options.get('--compatibility'),
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/compose/cli/command.py", line 121, in get_project
host=host, environment=environment
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/compose/cli/command.py", line 95, in get_client
version_info = six.iteritems(client.version())
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/docker/api/daemon.py", line 181, in version
return self._result(self._get(url), json=True)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/docker/utils/decorators.py", line 46, in inner
return f(self, *args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/docker/api/client.py", line 198, in _get
return self.get(url, **self._set_request_timeout(kwargs))
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 546, in get
return self.request('GET', url, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 533, in request
resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 646, in send
r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/adapters.py", line 529, in send
raise ReadTimeout(e, request=request)
requests.exceptions.ReadTimeout: UnixHTTPConnectionPool(host='localhost', port=None): Read timed out. (read timeout=60)
We can see that the HTTP connection cannot be established.
Why do I need to send my commands in a non-interactive way ? Originally, I want to send those commands using Jenkins (I added a SSH plugin in Jenkins), and I noticed that the docker commands were not working (same output as shown in this post). After a couple of tests, I realised that when Jenkins uses SSH, he sends the commands in a non-interactive way :
- ssh user#remote_IP "commands_to_execute"
This non-interactive way is not an issue for simple commands, but it appears to be an issue for some docker commands which require to be executed in an interactive shell I guess ?
Has someone found a work-around to successfully execute docker commands in a non-interactive shell ? Any help, hint, or alternative solutions will be greatly appreciated, as I tried a lot of things without any success so far..

Answer 1

Did you check if it is docker-engine running on tcp or by unix socket?
Maybe isn't reading right environment vars when you login by ssh u # h "command".
If it's running on unix socket (by default) try...
ssh user # remoteIP "cd /path_to_docker_file;DOCKER_HOST=unix:///var/run/docker.sock docker-compose run -d --name wfirst --user 1000: 1000 container"
or if is running on TCP, you can try ...
ssh user # remoteIP "cd /path_to_docker_file;DOCKER_HOST=tcp://127.0.0.1:2375 docker-compose run -d --name wfirst --user 1000: 1000 container"