Aries-Vcr is difficult to install and the startup scripts can be unstable

[ianco]

See this thread on Discord: https://discord.com/channels/905194001349627914/1078522185834053632

There are four different repositories involved in an Aries-Vcr install - https://github.com/bcgov/von-network, https://github.com/bcgov/aries-vcr, https://github.com/bcgov/aries-vcr-client and https://github.com/bcgov/aries-vcr-issuer-controller - and the installation is fairly complicated.

The instructions in the various repositories haven't been updated in awhile (some changes have been made recently specifically for some errors that were found).

The startup for some of the docker containers - especially the issuer - is very dependant on timing between the containers, and is not reliable on slower machines.

[kthomas-digicat]

When I issue ./manage build under aries-vcr/docker, I get the following error
Building solr image ...
error: Unable to load docker config: json: cannot unmarshal string into Go value of type docker.dockerConfig
FATAL: Error response from daemon:

Any help would be appreciated. I am using macOS Ventura 13.3.1, Docker version 20.10.23

[WadeBarnes]

Check your version of s2i. If you are using the latest it could be causing that issue. v1.3.1 is known to work.

[WadeBarnes]

@amanji, Which version was it that you had issues with yesterday? Have you have a chance to test any of the versions above v1.3.1?

[amanji]

I had issues with s2i v1.3.6. I have not yet tested with the versions between v1.3.1 (which worked for me) and v1.3.6.

[kthomas-digicat]

Check your version of s2i. If you are using the latest it could be causing that issue. v1.3.1 is known to work.

Thanks a lot @WadeBarnes , it works with version 1.3.1 of s2i. Really appreciate your timely help

[amanji]

I tested s2i versions backward from latest and it looks like the last working version is v1.3.4.

So it looks like something changed in v1.3.5 onwards since versions past this fail early with the following error:

FATAL: Error response from daemon: 

All was tested on Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS