"The image for the service you're trying to recreate has been removed"

[CrimsonGlory]

The following error happens when the user is trying to up a service using an image from a private docker hub repo without being logged into docker hub:

"ERROR: The image for the service you're trying to recreate has been removed. If you continue, volume data could be lost. Consider backing up your data before continuing."

Maybe we could change that description to indicate that the user is not logged into docker hub:

"ERROR: The image for the service you're trying to recreate has been removed (or the image is private and you may require 'docker login'). If you continue, volume data could be lost. Consider backing up your data before continuing."

I don't know if it is easy for compose to check weather the user is logged in in docker hub. If so, compose could show the second message only when the user is not logged in.

This was tested with the latest docker compose.

user@host:~/foldername$ sudo docker-compose --version
docker-compose version 1.27.4, build 40524192
user@host:~/foldername$ sudo docker-compose -f distributed.yml up -d --no-recreate worker_no_vt
WARNING: Found orphan containers (foldername_db1_1, foldername_syslog_1) for this project. If you removed or renamed this service in your compose file, you can run this command with the --remove-orphans flag to clean it up.
Pulling worker_no_vt (dockerhubuser123/foldername:worker_cg_3344)...
ERROR: The image for the service you're trying to recreate has been removed. If you continue, volume data could be lost. Consider backing up your data before continuing.

Continue with the new image? [yN]N
ERROR: pull access denied for dockerhubuser123/foldername, repository does not exist or may require 'docker login'
user@host:~/foldername$ sudo docker pull dockerhubuser123/foldername:worker_cg_3344
Error response from daemon: pull access denied for dockerhubuser123/foldername, repository does not exist or may require 'docker login'
user@host:~/foldername$ sudo docker login
Login with your Docker ID to push and pull images from Docker Hub. If you don't have a Docker ID, head over to https://hub.docker.com to create one.
Username: dockerhubuser123
Password:
WARNING! Your password will be stored unencrypted in /home/user/.docker/config.json.
Configure a credential helper to remove this warning. See
https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/login/#credentials-store

Login Succeeded
user@host:~/foldername$ sudo docker-compose -f distributed.yml up -d --no-recreate worker_no_vt
WARNING: Found orphan containers (foldername_syslog_1, foldername_db1_1) for this project. If you removed or renamed this service in your compose file, you can run this command with the --remove-orphans flag to clean it up.
Pulling worker_no_vt (dockerhubuser123/foldername:worker_cg_3344)...
worker_cg_3344: Pulling from dockerhubuser123/foldername
7568c21980bd: Pulling fs layer
4a9f2207c812: Downloading [>                                                  ]  110.1kB/10.8MB
6fe350d2b140: Download complete
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compose/compose/cli/main.py

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"The image for the service you're trying to recreate has been removed. "

[Anuradha4dm]

same kind of problem with me

[Mootassame]

and me

[jdsalaro]

Ditto 🤚🏼 !

[makamane]

same here

[KimJinsu66]

and me! helllpppppp

[Prateekarora1998]

This error happens when the image name (image repo name) of the dockerfile is different from the image name that you have provided in the yaml file. Change the image name to the name that you provided in your yaml file. My issue got solved by doing this. Hope it helps you too.

[ag-TJNII]

Agreed on this being a bad error message. I've spent about an hour angrily trying to figure our how to force bypass this for use in a CI pipeline because the error lead me to believe that Compose was keeping some sort of state squirreled away after a rm that let it detect if the image changed and warn if volume data might be altered.

What was really happening was my source image just didn't exist and couldn't be pulled. This error message should be "source image does not exist", not "If you continue, volume data could be lost."

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[gokul656]

Same issue with me!

[ongteckwu]

Use https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-ecr-credential-helper
Do
brew install docker-credential-helper-ecr
then
Place the docker-credential-ecr-login binary on your PATH and set the contents of your ~/.docker/config.json file to be:

{
	"credsStore": "ecr-login"
}