act unable to run on rancher desktop / containerd

[villanisaac-kr]

Bug report info

act version:            0.2.53
GOOS:                   darwin
GOARCH:                 arm64
NumCPU:                 10
Docker host:            unix:///Users/[REDACTED]/.rd/docker.sock
Sockets found:
        /var/run/docker.sock
Config files:           
Build info:
        Go version:            go1.21.3
        Module path:           command-line-arguments
        Main version:          
        Main path:             
        Main checksum:         
        Build settings:
                -buildmode:           exe
                -compiler:            gc
                -ldflags:             -X main.version=0.2.53
                DefaultGODEBUG:       panicnil=1
                CGO_ENABLED:          1
                CGO_CFLAGS:           
                CGO_CPPFLAGS:         
                CGO_CXXFLAGS:         
                CGO_LDFLAGS:          
                GOARCH:               arm64
                GOOS:                 darwin

Error: error during connect: Get "http://%2FUsers%2F[REDACTED]%2F.rd%2Fdocker.sock/v1.24/info": EOF

Command used with act

act  -j test -W \
  .github/workflows/test-bootstrap-actions-suite.yaml \
  -s GITHUB_TOKEN="$GH_TOKEN" \
  --secret-file local.secrets  \
  --input-file local.inputs  \
  -P kubernetes=[REDACTED]/workflow-test-runner:debian-bullseye-1.3.0_arm64  \
  -P aks=[REDACTED]/workflow-test-runner:debian-bullseye-1.3.0_arm64  \
  --pull=false \
  --container-architecture linux/arm64

Describe issue

Getting below error when executing act. Using Rancher Desktop as my docker engine.

Error: unable to determine if image already exists for image '[REDACTED]/workflow-test-runner:debian-bullseye-1.3.0_arm64' (linux/arm64): error during connect: Get "http://%2FUsers%2F[REDACTED]%2F.rd%2Fdocker.sock/v1.24/images/[REDACTED]/workflow-test-runner:debian-bullseye-1.3.0_arm64/json": EOF

Link to GitHub repository

No response

Workflow content

n/a. The workflows run on act when using Docker desktop. But Our company is restricting the use of docker desktop and using rancher desktop instead. 

#docker-compose.yaml
---
version: "3"
services:
  runner:
    image: [REDACTED]/workflow-test-runner:debian-bullseye-1.3.0_arm64
    privileged: true
    volumes:
      - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
    networks:
      - act-net

Relevant log output

Test bootstrap actions suite/test] 🚀  Start image=[REDACTED]]/workflow-test-runner:debian-bullseye-1.3.0_arm64
INFO[0000] Parallel tasks (0) below minimum, setting to 1 
[Test bootstrap actions suite/test]   🐳  docker pull image=[REDACTED]/workflow-test-runner:debian
Error: unable to determine if image already exists for image '[REDACTED]/workflow-test-runner:debian-bullseye-1.3.0_arm64' (linux/arm64): error during connect: Get "http://%2FUsers%2F[REDACTED]%2F.rd%2Fdocker.sock/v1.24/images/[REDACTED]/workflow-test-runner:debian-bullseye-1.3.0_arm64/json": EOF

Additional information

No response

[emont01]

Try defining the variable DOCKER_HOST either before running act:

export DOCKER_HOST=$(docker context inspect --format '{{.Endpoints.docker.Host}}')
act -j test ...

or as a one liner:

DOCKER_HOST=$(docker context inspect --format '{{.Endpoints.docker.Host}}') act -j test ...

[jsoref]

It'd be really nice if act honored the active docker context instead of relying on manually setting DOCKER_HOST or creating a symlink in /var/run/docker.sock ...

[jsoref]

This is:

• Issue: Got error when use act at locally with remote docker contexts #583