Docker Compose in Bluemix KeyError Message - docker

Question

I get an error when deploying 2 services in Bluemix using docker-compose:
Creating xxx
ERROR: for xxx-service 'message'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "bin/docker-compose", line 3, in <module>
File "compose/cli/main.py", line 64, in main
File "compose/cli/main.py", line 116, in perform_command
File "compose/cli/main.py", line 876, in up
File "compose/project.py", line 416, in up
File "compose/parallel.py", line 66, in parallel_execute
KeyError: 'message'
Failed to execute script docker-compose
My docker-compose file (that perfectly runs in local) is:
yyy-service:
image: yyy
container_name: wp-docker
hostname: wp-docker
ports:
- 8080:80
environment:
WORDPRESS_DB_PASSWORD: whatever
volumes:
- "~/whatever/:/var/www/html/wp-content"
links:
- xxx-service
xxx-service:
image: xxx
container_name: wp-mysql
hostname: wp-mysql
environment:
MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: whatever
MYSQL_DATABASE: whatever
MYSQL_USER: root
MYSQL_PASSWORD: whatever
volumes:
- /var/data/whatever:/var/lib/mysql
The question is very similar to this one, but I see no solution, except for trying
export COMPOSE_HTTP_TIMEOUT=300
which hasn't worked for me.

Answer 1

Unfortunately, docker-compose eats the actual error messages returned and gives you a helpful stack trace of their python script with no info about the underlying cause.
From your compose file, my guess is that the issue is with your volumes. You've specced it to mount directories on your compute host directly into your containers. That won't work in Bluemix - instead you need to specify that the volumes are external (and create those first), then point to them.
For example, something like:
version: '2'
services:
test:
image: registry.ng.bluemix.net/ibmliberty
volumes:
- test:/tmp/data:rw
volumes:
test:
external: true
where you create the volume (in this case, "test") first with something like cf ic volume create test