`docker-compose up` times out with UnixHTTPConnectionPool

Question

In our Jenkins agents we are running about several (around 20) tests whose setup involves running docker-compose up for a \"big\" number of services/containers

Answer 1

docker-compose down

Running docker-compose down and then running docker-compose up --build may work. I am working on vscode and when I encountered a similar problem while building docker, this solution worked for me.

Before performing above mentioned command its better you refer to what is the purpose of docker-compose down

Answer 2

Restarting docker service:

sudo systemctl restart docker

and setting DOCKER_CLIENT_TIMEOUT and COMPOSE_HTTP_TIMEOUT environment variables:

export DOCKER_CLIENT_TIMEOUT=120
export COMPOSE_HTTP_TIMEOUT=120

are two workarounds for now. But the issues are still open in docker compose github:

https://github.com/docker/compose/issues/3927

https://github.com/docker/compose/issues/4486

https://github.com/docker/compose/issues/3834