I'm trying to set up Netmaker using Docker Compose. I did initially start with the quick script, but I modified the Compose file a little to use an external Caddy server. When the services all start, the

mq

service spams " Waiting for netmaker server to startup". The netmaker service starts up correctly, but fails to connect to the

mq

service:

netmaker         | [netmaker] 2023-03-09 15:39:57 connecting to sqlite
netmaker         | [netmaker] 2023-03-09 15:39:57 database successfully connected
netmaker         | [netmaker] 2023-03-09 15:39:57 no OAuth provider found or not configured, continuing without OAuth
netmaker         | [netmaker] 2023-03-09 15:39:57 Configuring MQ...
netmaker         | [netmaker] 2023-03-09 15:39:57 MQ config exists already, So Updating Existing Config...
netmaker         | [netmaker] 2023-03-09 15:39:57 REST Server successfully started on port  8081  (REST)
netmaker         | [netmaker] 2023-03-09 15:39:57 connecting to mq broker at ws://mq:1883 with TLS? false
netmaker         | [netmaker] Fatal: Admin: could not connect to broker, token timeout, exiting ...

I have pinged

mq:1883

using Nmap to confirm that it was listening, and it returned

PORT     STATE  SERVICE
1883/tcp closed mqtt

which I assum means the port is working correctly. Why, then, might Netmaker not be able to connect?

in netmaker v0.17.1 there is a little dance between netmaker and mq (removed in v0.180+) so sometimes you have tor run docker-compose up -d a couple of times to get v0.17.1 started properly

Could I use 0.18 instead?

yes you can .... v0.18.0, v0.18.1, v0.18.2 are available as pre-releases... you cannot upgrade from v0.171 but new installs are fine

I have a new problem, when I try to run everything, the

mq

container fails with

/docker-entrypoint.sh: exec: line 10: /mosquitto/config/wait.sh: Permission denied

. I've tried every single incantation of chmod to try and get the host's wait.sh to have the proper permissions, but it doesn't seem to help.

chmod +x wait.sh

Still the same

have you got the correct copy of wait.sh ( and mosquito.conf), they changed in v0.18+

I copied them off the

release_0.18.2

branch off GitHub

Try using the nm-quick.sh from the develop branch

I fixed it, thanks :)