depot configure-docker failing with docker 29.0.0

[juan-sanchez-sentra]

Hi! Sorry if I'm not posting this in the right place. I'm not sure whether this is a problem with the cli or the GitHub action.

In any case, it seems that the usage of depot as a docker plugin breaks with Docker 29.0.0.

We get an error like this one when running "depot configure-docker":

Error: could not configure buildx: unable create driver container: unable to download image: unable to download image: Error response from daemon: client version 1.43 is too old. Minimum supported API version is 1.44, please upgrade your client to a newer version.

Here is a minimal workflow to reproduce it. When downgrading to docker version 28.5.1, it works

name: Depot test

on:
  workflow_dispatch:

jobs:
  depot-test:
    name: depot-test
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - name: Setup Docker
        id: docker
        uses: docker/setup-docker-action@v4
#        with:
#          version: 28.5.1

      - name: Set up Depot CLI
        uses: depot/setup-action@v1

      - name: Install Depot as a docker plugin
        env:
          DEPOT_TOKEN: "xxx"
          DEPOT_PROJECT_ID: "xxx"
        run: depot configure-docker

Is this something that can be worked out in any other way than downgrading docker?

Thank you

[9c23a5]

I found depot/cli#413 reports this same issue, one of the solutions is to run DOCKER_API_VERSION=1.52 depot build --load instead

Setting the API version as an env on CI worked for me:

jobs:
  depot-test:
    name: depot-test
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    env:
      DOCKER_API_VERSION: 1.52

    steps:
      - name: Setup Docker
        id: docker
        uses: docker/setup-docker-action@v4

      - name: Set up Depot CLI
        uses: depot/setup-action@v1

      - name: Install Depot as a docker plugin
        env:
          DEPOT_TOKEN: "xxx"
          DEPOT_PROJECT_ID: "xxx"
        run: depot configure-docker

I didn't use docker/setup-docker-action when testing, but I hope it works with that step too.

I think it started happening for ubuntu-latest images without docker/setup-docker-action after this change: actions/runner-images#13474. Depot self-hosted images work fine so far.

[jacobwgillespie]

We have just released a new CLI version that should silence this error, let me know if you still see any issues with the new release.

[9c23a5]

Thanks! Now it works without the ENV 🙂