Docker Provisioner takes 9+ minutes to install docker

[darkn3rd]

Vagrant version

• Vagrant 1.8.1
• VirtualBox 5.0.16r105871

  Host operating system

• OS X 10.11.3 (15D21)

  Guest operating system

• Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr

  Vagrantfile

Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|
  config.vm.box = "ubuntu/trusty64"
  config.vm.provision "docker"
end

Debug output

https://gist.github.com/darkn3rd/775f9b496f3d80d57ba3

# from the gist
[ -x /usr/bin/lsb_release ] && /usr/bin/lsb_release -i 2>/dev/null | grep Ubuntu
sudo test -f /usr/bin/docker
sudo test -f /usr/local/bin/docker
sudo test -f /usr/sbin/docker
sudo apt-get update -qq -y                             # 1m39
sudo apt-get install -qq -y --force-yes curl apt-transport-https
sudo apt-get purge -qq -y lxc-docker* || true
curl -sSL https://get.docker.com/ | sudo sh            # 8m21.600s
test -f /usr/bin/docker
getent group docker
id -Gn | grep docker
sudo usermod -a -G docker vagrant
test -f /var/run/docker.pid
test -f /var/run/docker.pid

Expected behavior

Expecting that using vagrant's docker provisioner would take around two minutes. I looked through the debug output, and it seems the curl command takes a lot of time, about 8 minutes. Using steps documented from Docker Ubuntu Install, the install takes 2m12.201s:

apt-get update                                        # 0m29.270s
apt-get install apt-transport-https ca-certificates   # 0m0.392s
apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://p80.pool.sks-keyservers.net:80 --recv-keys 58118E89F3A912897C070ADBF76221572C52609D # 0m0.652s
echo 'deb https://apt.dockerproject.org/repo ubuntu-trusty main' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list
apt-get update                                        # 0m6.792s
apt-get purge lxc-docker                              # 0m0.351s
apt-get install linux-image-extra-$(uname -r)         # 0m54.865s
apt-get install apparmor                              # 0m0.339s
apt-get update                                        # 0m12.315s
apt-get install -y docker-engine                      # 0m12.310s
usermod -a -G docker vagrant
service docker start                                  # 0m0.011s

Actual behavior

Vagrant provision takes unusually long time. Sometimes between 9 minutes and 18 minutes, which is too slow to be usable.

$ time vagrant provision
==> default: Running provisioner: docker...
    default: Installing Docker onto machine...

real    9m25.384s
user    0m2.429s
sys 0m0.620s

Steps to reproduce

1. vagrant up --no-provision
2. vagrant provision

[sethvargo]

This looks similar to https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/issues/5319.

I think there's something different about how Vagrant is invoking curl in the subprocess that is slowing it down /cc @mitchellh

[darkn3rd]

This may explain why I get the 18+ minute zone. The curl command run manually from within a vagrant box takes 8 minutes alone, so I don't know if it is a combination of these two factors, or they are the same thing.

[chippawah]

+1 to this issue. I'm new to Vagrant and Docker, the hang time on install is brutal when I'm iterating over many different configurations. Unlikely to use either tech if it's so slow all the time.

[jar349]

+1 also happening to me. Same environment/versions - expect host is Linux Mint, not OS X.

[jetbasrawi]

+1 Same issue for me. Have we got a solution yet?

[skirdey]

+1 Same here, Vagrant 1.8.1 Virtual Box 5.0.20

[akutz]

+1 Vagrant 1.8.1 Virtual Box 5.0.20

[jchinkle]

Having this same issue as well.

Vagrant 1.8.1 VB 5.0.20

[sijpkes]

Me too +1

Vagrant 1.8.5 VB 5.0.26 r108824

[joyfulmonster]

• having the same issue.

Vagrant 1.8.5 VB 5.0.26 r108824

[sijpkes]

I'm wondering if this should even be a bug since, now that I know more about Docker, running it inside a VM seems superfluous. I worked around this by just running Docker on my Desktop.

[ardeearam]

+1

Vagrant 1.8.1 VB 5.0.24_Ubuntu r108355

[muhammadghazali]

+1

Vagrant 1.8.6 VirtualBox 4.3.36_Ubuntu r105129

[muhammadghazali]

The alternative is using garethr-docker puppet module to install the docker engine and pulling docker images. I was able to reduce the provisioning time...

[ghost]

+1

I'm experiencing the same issue.

Vagrant version: 1.9.1 VirtualBox version: VirtualBox-5.0.30-112061-Win Host computer OS: Windows 7

[voskobovich]

+1

Vagrant version: 1.9.1 VirtualBox version: 5.0.30 r112061 Host OS: macOS Sierra (10.12.3)

[nicknezis]

Are you guys using the new native OSX Docker? If you use the "d.force_host_vm = false" parameter you can skip the step of Vagrant installing and running a VM to run docker within. Here is a Gist showing how I'm using it. https://gist.github.com/nicknezis/fd5845251a8805729cd05bfca5680a15

Also here is the link to Docker for Mac: https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-mac/

[jamiejackson]

@muhammadghazali

The alternative is using garethr-docker puppet module to install the docker engine and pulling docker images. I was able to reduce the provisioning time...

Could you share how you implemented it? I have only used shell provisioners--I haven't used Puppet.

[mcandre]

I'm wondering if this should even be a bug since, now that I know more about Docker, running it inside a VM seems superfluous. I worked around this by just running Docker on my Desktop.

@sijpkes For the majority of Docker users among the Linux, macOS, and Windows crowd, yes, Docker ideallys runs "natively" from the host without any additional Vagrant virtualization bogging things down. And yet there are likely some Docker users who, for whatever reason, want to run Docker on even stranger hosts--BSD, Haiku, Solaris, and so on, where Docker may not be easy to obtain, and so some sort of VM for a Docker-friendly guest may be more convenient in the short term, while waiting for Docker support to come to their poison ahem OS of choice.

[darkn3rd]

Context: At the time this was written, docker in xhyve (docker-for-mac) or hyper-v (docker-for-win) were new, and docker-machine with virtualbox provider was still popular. Vagrant was an alternative to docker-machine, but it was slow, as the download.

It seems newer version of vagrant will just use native docker (or docker in hyper-v on win or hyperkit on mac via docker-for-win and docker-for-mac), as config.vm.provider("docker") { |dkr| dkr.force_host_vm = false } is false by default. So this would need to be set to true to reproduce on Win/Mac/Lin.

For using alternative tool or process, e.g. puppet, ansible, etc., is not the scope of the bug, as the bug is the vagrant provisioner, when it needs to fetch docker and install in the vm, it takes abnormally long time.

[chrisroberts]

Hi there,

It looks like this has been resolved within a previously shipped version of Vagrant so I am now closing this issue. If the original issue was not fully resolved, please reopen this issue or create a new one.

Cheers!

[ghost]

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