Crash: Invalid version. Must be a string. Got type "object" while checking docker server version.

[AmauryD]

Crash report

Error message

While trying to build images locally, I ran into this issue:

Failed processing Build type=container name=worker (took 0.5 sec). This is what happened:
TypeError: Invalid version. Must be a string. Got type "object".
    at new SemVer (/snapshot/pkg/node_modules/semver/classes/semver.js:19:13)
    at compare (/snapshot/pkg/node_modules/semver/functions/compare.js:3:3)
    at Object.gte (/snapshot/pkg/node_modules/semver/functions/gte.js:2:30)
    at checkMinDockerVersion (/snapshot/pkg/core/build/src/plugins/container/helpers.js:404:29)
    at Object.checkDockerServerVersion (/snapshot/pkg/core/build/src/plugins/container/helpers.js:260:19)
    at AsyncFunction.buildContainer (/snapshot/pkg/core/build/src/plugins/container/build.js:32:32)
    at async localBuild (/snapshot/pkg/core/build/src/plugins/kubernetes/container/build/local.js:66:25)
    at async Object.assign.handlerType.handlerType (/snapshot/pkg/core/build/src/router/base.js:202:28)
    at async Router.callHandler (/snapshot/pkg/core/build/src/router/base.js:173:24)
    at async build (/snapshot/pkg/core/build/src/router/build.js:51:24)
    at async /snapshot/pkg/core/build/src/util/open-telemetry/spans.js:46:20
    at async BuildTask.process (/snapshot/pkg/core/build/src/tasks/build.js:61:32)
    at async descriptor.value (/snapshot/pkg/core/build/src/tasks/base.js:319:29)
    at async /snapshot/pkg/core/build/src/util/open-telemetry/decorators.js:47:30
    at async ProcessTaskNode.execute (/snapshot/pkg/core/build/src/graph/nodes.js:214:35)
    at async GraphSolver.processNode (/snapshot/pkg/core/build/src/graph/solver.js:281:35)

What did you do?

I was able to reproduce the same issue from the repository https://github.com/garden-io/quickstart-example by simply running:

garden build --env=local

Your environment

• OS: MACOS 14.0
• How I'm running Kubernetes: Docker Desktop
• Garden version: 0.13.18

Docker desktop:

Engine: 24.0.6
Compose: v2.22.0-desktop.2
Credential Helper: v0.7.0
Kubernetes: v1.27.2

Frequency

Always

Workaround

Not found.

[AmauryD]

It appears that the command docker version -f "{{ .Server.Version }}" returns 'dev'.

https://github.com/garden-io/garden/blob/main/core/src/plugins/container/build.ts#L38

  // { client: '24.0.6', server: 'dev' }
  containerHelpers.checkDockerServerVersion(await containerHelpers.getDockerVersion())

Resetting Docker desktop to factory defaults fixed the problem. Something was probably corrupted at some point.

[stefreak]

Nonetheless, Garden should not crash encountering an invalid version, but emit a warning or something like that.

@AmauryD Thanks a lot for reporting this 👍