Documented example for container creation does not work

[em-jones]

What happened?

Using docs, I can't get any containers to run.

Example

# Find the latest Ubuntu precise image.
ubuntu_remote_image = docker.RemoteImage("ubuntuRemoteImage", name="ubuntu:precise")
# Start a container
ubuntu_container = docker.Container(
    "ubuntuContainer", image=ubuntu_remote_image.image_id
)

Output of pulumi about

CLI          
Version      3.88.1
Go Version   go1.21.1
Go Compiler  gc

Plugins
NAME        VERSION
aws-native  0.81.0
docker      4.4.3
mssql       0.0.7
python      unknown
random      4.14.0

Host     
OS       ubuntu
Version  22.04
Arch     x86_64

This project is written in python: executable='/home/ejones/repos/platform/.wt/data-platform/infra/venv/bin/python
3' version='3.11.6'

Current Stack: organization/infra/dev

TYPE                                        URN
pulumi:pulumi:Stack                         urn:pulumi:dev::infra::pulumi:pulumi:Stack::infra-dev
pulumi:providers:random                     urn:pulumi:dev::infra::pulumi:providers:random::default_4_14_0
random:index/randomPassword:RandomPassword  urn:pulumi:dev::infra::random:index/randomPassword:RandomPassword::pas
sword
pulumi:providers:docker                     urn:pulumi:dev::infra::pulumi:providers:docker::default_4_4_3
docker:index/remoteImage:RemoteImage        urn:pulumi:dev::infra::docker:index/remoteImage:RemoteImage::ubuntuRem
oteImage
docker:index/remoteImage:RemoteImage        urn:pulumi:dev::infra::docker:index/remoteImage:RemoteImage::mssql


Found no pending operations associated with dev

Backend        
Name           FCSWL458
URL            file://~
User           ejones
Organizations  
Token type     personal

Dependencies:
NAME               VERSION
pip                23.3.0
pulumi-aws-native  0.81.0
pulumi-docker      4.4.3
pulumi-random      4.14.0
pulumiverse-mssql  0.0.7
setuptools         68.2.2
wheel              0.41.2

Additional context

• can run same images from docker cli
• unable to see a failed container from pulumi up when running docker ps -a
• using native docker engine in ubuntu based in wsl
• trying to start a container with a name that's already in use throws an "already exists" error - leading me to believe there's no problem with default provider connecting to the daemon...

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[AaronFriel]

Do you see any error when you run the program? I reproduced your program in Pulumi YAML, and got this error:

docker:index:Container (container):
  error: 1 error occurred:
      * container exited immediately

If I add a command, however, like a sleep, the container runs and I can see it in CLI:

$ docker ps -a
CONTAINER ID   IMAGE          COMMAND            CREATED          STATUS          PORTS     NAMES
138ec79c001e   5b117edd0b76   "sleep infinity"   25 seconds ago   Up 24 seconds             container-5bf3655

Expand to see the YAML version of the program

name: tmp.d3GasjU4ZN
runtime: yaml
description: A minimal Pulumi YAML program
resources:
  remoteImage:
    type: docker:RemoteImage
    properties:
      name: ubuntu:precise
  container:
    type: docker:Container
    properties:
      image: ${remoteImage.imageId}
      # command: ["sleep", "infinity"]
outputs:
  remoteImageId:
    value: ${remoteImage.imageId}
  containerId:
    value: ${container.id}

[em-jones]

That works like a charm.
How would y'all feel about the suggestion the example should include this parameter?
My expectation would be: if I provide the same parameters that I use when running docker run, I would have the same result. Not saying that's the right thing to expect, but it feels intuitive enough that I don't expect to be the last person to think such a thing.

Thanks for the speedy support!

[mikhailshilkov]

@em-jones I'm glad you resolved your issue! Thank you @AaronFriel for your help.

The example is actually based on an upstream example here, so it would need to change there first.

[em-jones]

The example is actually based on an upstream example here, so it would need to change there first.

that checks out. I'll see if I can get this on their radar. Thanks again