Error response from daemon client is newer than server client API version x xx server API version 1 23

Question

When I attempt to run a Docker command from a Docker client that is connecting to a VCH, the command fails with the following error:

Error response from daemon: client is newer than server 
(client API version: x.xx, server API version: 1.23)

What I am doing wrong?

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

This version of vSphere Integrated Containers Engine supports Docker 1.11, that includes version 1.23 of the Docker API. You are using a more recent version of the Docker client, that includes a version of the Docker API that is incompatible.

To avoid this do the below given steps.

1. Open a terminal on the system on which you run the Docker client.

2. Set the Docker client API to the same version as the one that is used by vSphere Integrated Containers Engine.

   export DOCKER_API_VERSION=1.23

Hope this will work.