Running Code Build Agent locally fails with Docker = v1.27.0

Question

I've recently come back to a personal project, where I use Code Build local heavily in my development workflow. When running it, I found that it was failing with the following error:
```
docker run -it -v ....
ERROR: client version 1.22 is too old. Minimum supported API version is 1.24, please upgrade your client to a newer version
ERROR: client version 1.22 is too old. Minimum supported API version is 1.24, please upgrade your client to a newer version
```

Thinking it might have something to do with my build image, I went back to [the documentation for it](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/codebuild/latest/userguide/use-codebuild-agent.html) and started from scratch, only to end up with the same result. I then downgraded to Docker v1.26.0 and found that the error no longer occurred. I kept updating to the next version until it finally started failing again at v1.27.0.

It appears the ultimate fix for this is to update the local image to use a newer version of compose, something [similar to what's mentioned here](https://github.com/docker/compose/issues/5103). Ideally I would be reporting this to the development team directly, but I can't find a way to do so.

For now I'm sticking to [the older version of Docker](https://docs.docker.com/desktop/release-notes/#4261), but I would like to be able to benefit from future features and security-related fixes.

In case it's relevant, I'm running on Mac OS on ARM, though both the ARM and Intel images exhibit the same behavior.

Answer

I am having the same issue. I believe we need to raise a new issue in the GitHub repo **aws-codebuild-docker-images**.

https://github.com/aws/aws-codebuild-docker-images

The docker version used in the codebuild agent image is 18.09.0 and the docker compose version is 1.23.2, which is deprecated, and not supported by codebuild docker images repository.

I don't believe this can be fixed, unless the docker version in codebuild agent image is upgraded. I believe it make sense to upgrade it to the same version as the codebuild docker images, which is 23.0.6.

Actually, I won't raise a new issue. There is already an open issue here:

https://github.com/aws/aws-codebuild-docker-images/issues/696

I hope it helps. Good luck, to both of us. :)

Answer

~~After your suggestion, I took a closer look and there already is one, with a work around.
https://github.com/aws/aws-codebuild-docker-images/issues/696~~

LOL! You beat me to it!

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