docker-compose can not reach swarm

Question

I have used following manual to install swarm on my machines without using docker-machine: https://docs.docker.com/swarm/install-manual/ Now I want to use docker-compose to create cluster of containerised apps. But can not get docker-compose to reach swarm.

EG: Following command give back result:

docker -H :4000 ps 

but, docker-compose don't:

docker-compose -H my.IP.address:4000 ps
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 3, in <module>
  File "compose/cli/main.py", line 61, in main
  File "compose/cli/main.py", line 113, in perform_command
  File "contextlib.py", line 35, in __exit__
  File "compose/cli/errors.py", line 56, in handle_connection_errors
TypeError: log_timeout_error() takes exactly 1 argument (0 given)
docker-compose returned -1

docker-compose -H :4000 ps do not reach swarm either

Does anybody have idea what am I doing wrong?

There are some hints to set env variables for:

DOCKER_HOST DOCKER_CERT_PATH DOCKER_TLS_VERIFY

But how to get DOCKER_CERT_PATH

Answer 1

The issue was not related to docker. I was running virtual machines behind proxy and variable no_proxy was not set.