gcloud docker push no space left error

8/31/2015

Been using google container registry and google container engine for some time with my own created deploy script. It's been running ok for a while, but today I suddenly get periodic errors like this:

Failed to generate layer archive: error creating aufs mount to /mnt/sda1/var/lib/docker/aufs/mnt/9cbd0e528da716d242de0c57a5cca94098e7746e32507b43c50571f5d3dc3d1d: no space left on device

What I don't understand is how these "devices" can be filled up, since they are buckets in the cloud. Is it a bug with Google Cloud or am I doing something wrong?

-- Emil Ingerslev
docker
google-compute-engine
google-container-registry
google-kubernetes-engine

1 Answer

8/31/2015

That error is about space on your local device. Try cleaning up old images or otherwise freeing up space locally.

Here is a good link with some useful cleanup commands.

-- CJ Cullen
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