Docker: Error response from daemon: Could not get container for data

Installation
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OS: Ubuntu 14.04
Setup: AWS, EC2 with Ubuntu 14.04, Redis on ElastiCache, and PostgreSQL on RDS
Docker version: 1.10.1

Error Message:

root@ip-10-0-3-99:/var/discourse# ./launcher bootstrap web_only
cd /pups && git pull && /pups/bin/pups --stdin
docker: Error response from daemon: Could not get container for data.
See '/usr/bin/docker run --help'.
cat: cids/web_only_bootstrap.cid: No such file or directory
docker: "rm" requires a minimum of 1 argument.
See '/usr/bin/docker rm --help'.

Usage:	docker rm [OPTIONS] CONTAINER [CONTAINER...]

Remove one or more containers
** FAILED TO BOOTSTRAP ** please scroll up and look for earlier error messages, there may be more than one
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Instead of using web_only.yml I switched to standalone.yml and added a remote DB and redis config to it. This worked perfectly.

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Could you explain it in details, I’ve experienced with the same issue? :slight_smile:

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I think that happens when trying to bootstrap the app in multi-container mode (i.e. not using the standalone.yml config but the web_only.yml and data.yml or any other config which doesn’t setup database and webapp in the same container.

After bootstrapping the container with the database (e.g. ./launcher bootstrap data), you have to start the database container before you can bootstrap the web container (e.g. ./launcher start data before ./launcher bootstrap web_only).

If there is no database access when bootstrapping the web app, you get this (rather hard to understand) error message.

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See also Isn't it weird that you can't build docker image without Redis and Postgres connection?