failed to find buildx driver "remote"

[benmoss]

Description
Buildx introduced a remote driver, where you can just connect to an existing buildkit daemon.

Looks like we can just bump buildx and add a _ import to the remote package here

I tried doing this myself but ran into some issues since buildx needs some unreleased feature from buildkit, and docker/cli and docker/docker both needed to get bumped too, and then there were compilation problems 😥 . Left a branch pushed with a WIP here.

Steps to reproduce the issue:

1. Create a buildkit server (I followed this guide)
2. Wire it up to docker-buildx (docker buildx create --name remote --driver=remote --driver-opt key=$PWD.certs/client/key.pem --driver-opt cert=$PWD/.certs/client/cert.pem --driver-opt cacert=$PWD/.certs/client/ca.pem tcp://127.0.0.1:1234 if you're following that guide)
3. docker buildx use remote
4. Try to use docker compose with buildkit/buildx

Describe the results you received:

$ docker-compose run app py.test
failed to find buildx driver "remote"

Describe the results you expected:
It builds!

Output of docker compose version:

Docker Compose version 2.11.2

Output of docker info:

Client:
 Context:    colima
 Debug Mode: false
 Plugins:
  buildx: Docker Buildx (Docker Inc., v0.9.1)
  compose: Docker Compose (Docker Inc., 2.11.2)

Server:
 Containers: 15
  Running: 3
  Paused: 0
  Stopped: 12
 Images: 18
 Server Version: 20.10.18
 Storage Driver: overlay2
  Backing Filesystem: extfs
  Supports d_type: true
  Native Overlay Diff: true
  userxattr: false
 Logging Driver: json-file
 Cgroup Driver: cgroupfs
 Cgroup Version: 1
 Plugins:
  Volume: local
  Network: bridge host ipvlan macvlan null overlay
  Log: awslogs fluentd gcplogs gelf journald json-file local logentries splunk syslog
 Swarm: inactive
 Runtimes: io.containerd.runc.v2 io.containerd.runtime.v1.linux runc
 Default Runtime: runc
 Init Binary: docker-init
 containerd version: 9cd3357b7fd7218e4aec3eae239db1f68a5a6ec6
 runc version: 5fd4c4d144137e991c4acebb2146ab1483a97925
 init version:
 Security Options:
  seccomp
   Profile: default
 Kernel Version: 5.15.68-0-virt
 Operating System: Alpine Linux v3.16
 OSType: linux
 Architecture: aarch64
 CPUs: 8
 Total Memory: 3.828GiB
 Name: colima
 ID: L6MV:2NHB:DMC5:7ABF:UAJK:HDHG:WXSX:GSK4:D2MH:NXMP:XATY:KXOH
 Docker Root Dir: /var/lib/docker
 Debug Mode: false
 Username: benmoss
 Registry: https://index.docker.io/v1/
 Labels:
 Experimental: false
 Insecure Registries:
  host.docker.internal:5000
  127.0.0.0/8
 Live Restore Enabled: false

Additional environment details:

$ docker buildx version
github.com/docker/buildx v0.9.1 ed00243a0ce2a0aee75311b06e32d33b44729689

[enys]

I seem to be facing the same issue. Did you find a way to get it to work ? I have Docker Compose version v2.15.1

[benmoss]

Nope, no workarounds afaik, there needs to be code changes in compose to get this to work

[benmoss]

@enys thanks for pinging me though, it looks like the various dependency problems have been fixed and this is a really simple fix now!