Compose Cannot Use docker-credential-gcloud on Windows

[brantburnett]

Description of the issue

When using the gcloud credential helper on Docker for Windows, docker pull commands authenticate and succeed without problems. However, docker-compose pull or similar commands that trigger a pull will fail with file not found errors related to docker-credential-gcloud. This has been replicated across several systems.

Context information (for bug reports)

docker-compose version 1.20.1, build 5d8c71b2

Client:
 Version:       18.03.0-ce
 API version:   1.37
 Go version:    go1.9.4
 Git commit:    0520e24
 Built: Wed Mar 21 23:06:28 2018
 OS/Arch:       windows/amd64
 Experimental:  false
 Orchestrator:  swarm

Server:
 Engine:
  Version:      18.03.0-ce
  API version:  1.37 (minimum version 1.12)
  Go version:   go1.9.4
  Git commit:   0520e24
  Built:        Wed Mar 21 23:14:32 2018
  OS/Arch:      linux/amd64
  Experimental: true

{
  "auths": {
    "https://index.docker.io/v1/": {}
  }, 
  "credHelpers": {
    "gcr.io": "gcloud", 
    "us.gcr.io": "gcloud", 
    "eu.gcr.io": "gcloud", 
    "asia.gcr.io": "gcloud", 
    "staging-k8s.gcr.io": "gcloud"
  }, 
  "credsStore": "wincred", 
  "HttpHeaders": {
    "User-Agent": "Docker-Client/18.03.0-ce (windows)"
  }
}

Steps to reproduce the issue

1. Install Google Cloud SDK and authenticate
2. Run gcloud auth configure-docker to setup the helpers in config.json (per https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/auth/configure-docker)
3. Run docker-compose pull using a docker-compose.yaml that pulls from a private GCR registry

Observed result

Pulling images from GCR fails with a low-level exception. However, docker pull commands work fine.

Expected result

Authentication using docker-credential-gcloud should succeed.

Stacktrace / full error message

Using configuration files: .\docker-compose.ci.yml
Trying paths: ['C:\\Users\\bburnett\\.docker\\config.json', 'C:\\Users\\bburnett\\.dockercfg']
Found file at path: C:\Users\bburnett\.docker\config.json
Found 'auths' section
Auth data for https://index.docker.io/v1/ is absent. Client might be using a credentials store instead.
Found 'credsStore' section
Found 'credHelpers' section
Pulling couchbase (btburnett3/couchbasefakeit:enterprise-5.1.0)...
Looking for auth config
Using credentials store "wincred"
Looking for auth entry for 'https://index.docker.io/v1/'
Found auth config
http://localhost:None "POST /v1.25/images/create?tag=enterprise-5.1.0&fromImage=btburnett3%2Fcouchbasefakeit HTTP/1.1" 200 None
enterprise-5.1.0: Pulling from btburnett3/couchbasefakeit
Digest: sha256:a19f90e51454d50a024b8384dc3faa90511b4b417a3a6caaf183c0497482528c
Status: Image is up to date for btburnett3/couchbasefakeit:enterprise-5.1.0
Pulling undertest (us.gcr.io/[redacted]:latest)...
Looking for auth config
Using credentials store "gcloud"
Looking for auth entry for 'us.gcr.io'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "site-packages\dockerpycreds\store.py", line 52, in _execute
  File "subprocess.py", line 336, in check_output
  File "subprocess.py", line 403, in run
  File "subprocess.py", line 709, in __init__
  File "subprocess.py", line 997, in _execute_child
FileNotFoundError: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "site-packages\docker\auth.py", line 126, in _resolve_authconfig_credstore
  File "site-packages\dockerpycreds\store.py", line 25, in get
  File "site-packages\dockerpycreds\store.py", line 70, in _execute
dockerpycreds.errors.StoreError: docker-credential-gcloud not installed or not available in PATH

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "docker-compose", line 6, in <module>
  File "compose\cli\main.py", line 71, in main
  File "compose\cli\main.py", line 127, in perform_command
  File "compose\cli\main.py", line 716, in pull
  File "compose\project.py", line 561, in pull
  File "compose\service.py", line 1105, in pull
  File "site-packages\docker\api\image.py", line 359, in pull
  File "site-packages\docker\auth.py", line 47, in get_config_header
  File "site-packages\docker\auth.py", line 94, in resolve_authconfig
  File "site-packages\docker\auth.py", line 143, in _resolve_authconfig_credstore
docker.errors.DockerException: Credentials store error: StoreError('docker-credential-gcloud not installed or not available in PATH',)

Additional information

Windows 10 Fall Creators Update 1709 or Version Next 1803, running Docker for Windows 18.03 (no special installation steps)

We also tried downloading the latest docker-compose, 1.21.0, and overwriting the installed version. Same results.

[wwadge]

I got it to work by changing "gcloud" to "gcloud.cmd" in this section:

"credHelpers": { "gcr.io": "gcloud", "us.gcr.io": "gcloud", "eu.gcr.io": "gcloud", "asia.gcr.io": "gcloud", "staging-k8s.gcr.io": "gcloud" },

[brantburnett]

@wwadge That worked for me, thanks for the workaround.

I guess this means it's a Python limitation in subprocess.Popen here? https://github.com/shin-/dockerpy-creds/blob/master/dockerpycreds/store.py#L66

[wwadge]

No it's simpler than that:
https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/login/#credential-helpers

"Credential helpers are specified in a similar way to credsStore, but allow for multiple helpers to be configured at a time. Keys specify the registry domain, and values specify the suffix of the program to use (i.e. everything after docker-credential-)."

the binary on disk is simply called docker-credential-gcloud.cmd instead of docker-credential-gcloud as it was setup by gcloud command (as it would be under linux probably). This is therefore a gcloud sdk bug in my opinion.

[brantburnett]

I'm not certain that I agree, since specifying "gcloud" is completely functional with the "docker pull" command, and only fails with docker-compose. The main docker command on Windows is apparently transparently applying the .cmd suffix, which is resulting in a difference in behavior between docker and docker-compose.

This difference may be either intentional or an incidental result of the way the subprocess is launched by the docker command line. However, I feel like the behavior should be synchronized between the two.

[dennisameling]

Same issue here on Win10 Fall Creators Update with Docker 18.03. Changing "gcloud" to "gcloud.cmd" fixed the issue for me as well, thanks @wwadge!

[shin-]

Yeah, ideally the credstore resolution would work the same on Compose as it does with the Docker CLI.

I'll see what I can do to fix it 👍 thanks for the reports

[brantburnett]

Thanks for the fix @shin- !

[xpusostomos]

It's 2021, and this is still occuring on the latest versions of everything.

[wallind]

I got it to work by changing "gcloud" to "gcloud.cmd" in this section:

"credHelpers": { "gcr.io": "gcloud", "us.gcr.io": "gcloud", "eu.gcr.io": "gcloud", "asia.gcr.io": "gcloud", "staging-k8s.gcr.io": "gcloud" },

this fix still works. Shame it doesn't just work but I'll take it.