Retry on Docker failure

[nijave]

Occasionally the Docker daemon will fail (usually due to heavy load). Is there any way to set a retry on this? It looks like the only options are on image operations

[toolmantim]

Sounds like the pull-retries and push-retries options might be what you need @nijave?

[nijave]

These aren't pulls or pushes, they're the actual build (docker-compose build) so I don't think those will have any effect

On Tue, Jul 16, 2019, 11:59 PM Tim Lucas [email protected] wrote:

Sounds like the pull-retries and push-retries options might be what you need @nijave https://github.com/nijave?

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[toote]

Adding the logic to be able to do that may be quite cumbersome for little gain. Flaky tests are the bane of every engineer so I completely understand how frustrating they can be. Unfortunately, I believe they are a symptom of an issue and retries are not a solution just a bandaid.

That said, buildkite does offer some alternatives: you can retry the step itself off buildkite's UI or using steps' retry attributes for it to be done automatically.