Docker plugin creates endless number of container

Hello,

#Docker plugin
0.16.1
#cat /etc/debian_version
8.5
#uname -a
Linux mail 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt25-2+deb8u3 (2016-07-02) x86_64 GNU/Linux
#docker --version
Docker version 1.12.0, build 8eab29e

I notices that the docker plugin is creating an endless number of containers. This leads somewhen to a point, at which my docker daemon is unable to handle containers anymore.

I noticed that the docker plugin produces the following warnings while starting a jenkins build that is running with docker plugin:

Aug 17, 2016 10:39:29 AM INFORMATION com.nirima.jenkins.plugins.docker.DockerCloud provision
Asked to provision 1 slave(s) for: arch-build
Aug 17, 2016 10:39:29 AM INFORMATION com.nirima.jenkins.plugins.docker.DockerCloud provision
Will provision 'nbars/arch-jenkins-slave-docker', for label: 'arch-build', in cloud: 'docker'
Aug 17, 2016 10:39:29 AM INFORMATION com.nirima.jenkins.plugins.docker.DockerCloud addProvisionedSlave
Provisioning 'nbars/arch-jenkins-slave-docker' number '0' on 'docker'; Total containers: '0'
Aug 17, 2016 10:39:29 AM INFORMATION com.nirima.jenkins.plugins.docker.DockerCloud provisionWithWait
Trying to run container for nbars/arch-jenkins-slave-docker
Aug 17, 2016 10:39:29 AM SCHWERWIEGEND com.nirima.jenkins.plugins.docker.DockerCloud$1 call
Error in provisioning; template='DockerTemplate{configVersion=2, labelString='arch-build', launcher=com.nirima.jenkins.plugins.docker.launcher.DockerComputerSSHLauncher@6b483e7d, remoteFsMapping='', remoteFs='/home/jenkins', instanceCap=1, mode=NORMAL, retentionStrategy=com.nirima.jenkins.plugins.docker.strategy.DockerOnceRetentionStrategy@77c5bbab, numExecutors=1, dockerTemplateBase=DockerTemplateBase{image=nbars/arch-jenkins-slave-docker}, removeVolumes=false, pullStrategy=PULL_LATEST}' for cloud='docker'
com.github.dockerjava.api.BadRequestException: {"message":"starting container with HostConfig was deprecated since v1.10 and removed in v1.12"}

    at com.github.dockerjava.jaxrs.filter.ResponseStatusExceptionFilter.filter(ResponseStatusExceptionFilter.java:43)
    at org.glassfish.jersey.client.ClientFilteringStages$ResponseFilterStage.apply(ClientFilteringStages.java:134)
    at org.glassfish.jersey.client.ClientFilteringStages$ResponseFilterStage.apply(ClientFilteringStages.java:123)
    at org.glassfish.jersey.process.internal.Stages.process(Stages.java:171)
    at org.glassfish.jersey.client.ClientRuntime.invoke(ClientRuntime.java:251)
    at org.glassfish.jersey.client.JerseyInvocation$1.call(JerseyInvocation.java:667)
    at org.glassfish.jersey.client.JerseyInvocation$1.call(JerseyInvocation.java:664)
    at org.glassfish.jersey.internal.Errors.process(Errors.java:315)
    at org.glassfish.jersey.internal.Errors.process(Errors.java:297)
    at org.glassfish.jersey.internal.Errors.process(Errors.java:228)
    at org.glassfish.jersey.process.internal.RequestScope.runInScope(RequestScope.java:424)
    at org.glassfish.jersey.client.JerseyInvocation.invoke(JerseyInvocation.java:664)
    at org.glassfish.jersey.client.JerseyInvocation$Builder.method(JerseyInvocation.java:424)
    at org.glassfish.jersey.client.JerseyInvocation$Builder.post(JerseyInvocation.java:333)
    at com.github.dockerjava.jaxrs.StartContainerCmdExec.execute(StartContainerCmdExec.java:28)
    at com.github.dockerjava.jaxrs.StartContainerCmdExec.execute(StartContainerCmdExec.java:13)
    at com.github.dockerjava.jaxrs.AbstrSyncDockerCmdExec.exec(AbstrSyncDockerCmdExec.java:23)
    at com.github.dockerjava.core.command.AbstrDockerCmd.exec(AbstrDockerCmd.java:33)
    at com.github.dockerjava.core.command.StartContainerCmdImpl.exec(StartContainerCmdImpl.java:53)
    at com.nirima.jenkins.plugins.docker.DockerCloud.runContainer(DockerCloud.java:294)
    at com.nirima.jenkins.plugins.docker.DockerCloud.provisionWithWait(DockerCloud.java:372)
    at com.nirima.jenkins.plugins.docker.DockerCloud.access$000(DockerCloud.java:58)
    at com.nirima.jenkins.plugins.docker.DockerCloud$1.call(DockerCloud.java:248)
    at com.nirima.jenkins.plugins.docker.DockerCloud$1.call(DockerCloud.java:245)
    at jenkins.util.ContextResettingExecutorService$2.call(ContextResettingExecutorService.java:46)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:262)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

Could it be possible that the docker plugin treads the deprecation warning as an error and thus is thinking that the container creation failed? This error message appear many times and it looks like that the docker plugin is creating a new container every 10 seconds.

[changsijay]

after I remove 1.12 and install 1.11.2 by:

sudo apt-get install docker-engine=1.11.2-0~xenial

it works fine 💃

[Jochen-A-Fuerbacher]

Hello,

AFAIK the current version of the Docker Plugin (0.16.1) doesn’t work with your Docker version (1.12.0). See also: https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-36080

Downgrading Docker to 1.11.0 should resolve this problem.