Terraform with docker provider , can't pull the image

Question

My terraform config.tf:

 provider "docker" {
   host = "tcp://my_dockerhost:2376/"
 }


resource "docker_container" "ubuntu" {
  name = "foo"
  image = "${docker_image.ubuntu.latest}"
}


resource "docker_image" "ubuntu" {
  name = "ubuntu:precise"
}

Erorr on apply:

 docker_image.ubuntu: Creating...
 latest: "" => "<computed>"
 name:   "" => "ubuntu:precise"
 Error applying plan:

 1 error(s) occurred:

 docker_image.ubuntu: **Unable to read Docker image into resource: Unable to find or pull image ubuntu:precise**

I deleted all the existing local images from my system and then run again , and then do docker images i noted that it does pull the image , but still unable to succeed with apply command and results in the same error.

Answer 1

Used your exact config and it was successful for me. See output below:

docker_image.ubuntu: Refreshing state... (ID: sha256:5b117edd0b767986092e9f721ba23649...f53f1f41aff9dd1861c2d4feubuntu:precise)
docker_container.ubuntu: Refreshing state... (ID: 0482ec57dadff257a64815b10ac1d97863844a16852af7326046bb2ce3c8de0a)
aws_key_pair.mykey: Refreshing state... (ID: mykey)
aws_instance.example: Refreshing state... (ID: i-054b71ec0f9fe55bb)
docker_image.ubuntu: Creating...
  latest: "" => "<computed>"
  name:   "" => "ubuntu:precise"
docker_image.ubuntu: Creation complete (ID: sha256:5b117edd0b767986092e9f721ba23649...f53f1f41aff9dd1861c2d4feubuntu:precise)
docker_container.ubuntu: Creating...
  bridge:           "" => "<computed>"
  gateway:          "" => "<computed>"
  image:            "" => "sha256:5b117edd0b767986092e9f721ba2364951b0a271f53f1f41aff9dd1861c2d4fe"
  ip_address:       "" => "<computed>"
  ip_prefix_length: "" => "<computed>"
  log_driver:       "" => "json-file"
  must_run:         "" => "true"
  name:             "" => "foo"
  restart:          "" => "no"
docker_container.ubuntu: Creation complete (ID: a069e59359f19902d75642c584746c70098ed4f76f04d4570ae53f2383774649)

Apply complete! Resources: 2 added, 0 changed, 0 destroyed.

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