After upgrading to docker version 29.0.0, the API version is 1.52 (minimum version 1.44). Traefik uses 1.24 so it has stopped working ERR github.com/traefik/traefik/v3/pkg/provider/docker/pdocker.go:156 > Provider error, retrying in 26.370093276s error="Error response from daemon: client version 1…

Debug logs show: ERR github.com/traefik/traefik/v3/pkg/provider/docker/pdocker.go:85 > Failed to retrieve information of the docker client and server host error="Error response from daemon: client version 1.24 is too old. Minimum supported API version is 1.44, please upgrade your client to a newer …

See Error response from daemon: client version 1.24 is too old · Issue #12253 · traefik/traefik · GitHub . Help is underway.

Ouch this was a rough! Just found out my all my websites crashed while I was sleeping because of this.

The dynamic file base still works for me; it's just the Traefik label issues. I have to change all my labels to file-based for now.

A temporary workaround is downgrading docker-ce (e.g. this command on debian 13: apt install docker-ce=5:28.5.2-1~debian.13~trixie).

Yeah this was very rough. I didn’t know how to downgrade docker to specific version. I was very scared :fearful: to use unknown commands provided by Docker’s own AI Gordon. But somehow it worked and I downgraded. Now I am never updating ubuntu unless this issue is resolved. Please keep me updated.

I ran into the same issue yesterday while using Traefik 3.5.6. I had installed Docker from the official Docker package repository (not the Ubuntu-provided one). After upgrading to Docker 29, the problem appeared. Rolling back to Docker 28.5.2immediately resolved it — everything started working agai…

Also working solution. Set min-api-version in your Docker daemon.json file. { "min-api-version": "1.24" } Solution taken from https://www.docker.com/blog/docker-engine-version-29/

As root, on vm : jq '. + {"min-api-version": "1.24"}' /etc/docker/daemon.json | tee /tmp/daemon.json mv -f /tmp/daemon.json /etc/docker/daemon.json systemctl restart docker

Latest Traefik release v3.6.1 should fix the issue with Docker API [image] Release v3.6.1 · traefik/traefik Important: Please read the migration guide. Bug fixes: [docker] Auto-negotiate Docker API Version (#12256 by felixbuenemann) [server] Fix multi-layer routing with models (#12258 …

Traefik stops working, it uses old API version 1.24

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Latest Traefik release v3.6.1 should fix the issue with Docker API

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