Question
I'm unable to create a docker machine using the access token generated by my DigitalOcean account
- Posted on August 16, 2016
- DockerAPIDigitalOceanUbuntu 16.04
Asked by alanh
This is the error that I get:
$ docker-machine create --driver digitalocean --digitalocean-access-token=<my_token> flask
Running pre-create checks...
Creating machine...
(flask) Creating SSH key...
(flask) Creating Digital Ocean droplet...
Error creating machine: Error in driver during machine creation: POST https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/droplets: 422 You specified an invalid image for Droplet creation.
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Try adding
--digitalocean-image dockerto your docker-machine command. The error being displayed is because the DigitalOcean API is not being sent a proper image ID or slug to know which disk image to use when creating your droplet.