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Sudden Docker error about "client API version"
Stewart
Nov 11
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I've been successfully using TestContainers with Docker for quite a while now. All of a sudden today, I started getting this error:
UnixSocketClientProviderStrategy: failed with exception BadRequestException (Status 400:
{"message":"client version 1.32 is too old. Minimum supported API version is 1.44, please upgrade your client to a newer version"}
What could explain such a sudden breakage?
docker
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Jesse Glick
PermalinkNov 11
There is an issue raised with Testcontainers about this.
If you can run Testcontainers 2.x, update to 2.0.2 or later. If not, update to 1.21.4.
If you cannot update at all for now, the following hotfix can be used as a workaround:
echo api.version=1.44 >> ~/.docker-java.properties
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AndyPermalink
Nov 11
There is already an issue reported directly on TC's GitHub - github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-java/issues/11212, I suppose they will need to release a new version, given the Docker API version is almost (there is a workaround) hard coded in the library.
StewartPermalink
Nov 13
I have to say, I am amazed at the downvotes. To their contrary, I firmly believe this Q+A post is both clear and useful. People suddenly hitting upon this error will google the error text, find this post, and be able to immediately apply a fix and continue their work. Mission accomplished.