Centos7 docker-py doesn't seem to be installed

I found a couple problems with the docker-py module. After I worked through them I ended up with this:

  - name: Docker-PY
    pip:
      name: "{{ item }}"
    with_items:
    - six==1.4
    - docker-py==1.1.0

First, I ran into your problem. The solution is to explicitly set the most recent version of six as described here: https://github.com/docker/docker-py/issues/344.

After that, I ran into an issue (you might run into it too) with a bug in the docker-py 1.2.2 version. The workaround is to specify an older version as described here: https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-core/issues/1227. Do a pip uninstall docker-py to get rid of the newer version.

If you aren't using ansible to install these then do this:

[sudo] pip uninstall docker-py
[sudo] pip install six==1.4
[sudo] pip install docker-py==1.1.0

If you're working on CentOS7 or similar, you may not want to install unpackaged code via pip. In which case, it's good to know that the Extras channel has a package python-docker-py. I had this problem, installed that package, and was off to the races.

tl;dr;

check file permissions and make sure your user can read the python module in /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages

Context

I recently went to this is issue but it was a permission problem.

Note that I used docker 1.9.1, ansible 2.0.1.0 and redhat 7.2.

I installed docker-py with ansible (this might not be your case).

I did it with this role:

- name: install docker-py with pip
  become: true
  pip: state=present name='{{ item }}'
  with_item:
    - docker-py==1.2.3
    - six==1.10.0

Problem

When sudoing, ansible may install docker-py with default umask 0077. As a result, no user, except root, will be able to read docker-py module files.

Your playbook will result with the docker-py doesn't seem to be installed, but is required for the Ansible Docker module error.

Notice the differences between:

• sudo pip install docker-py => /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/docker is in mode 0700
• sudo su then pip install docker-py => /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/docker is in mode 0755

Fix

This will be fixable with ansible 2.1 by passing the umask=0022 parameter to the pip module (see https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-core/commit/4b46200477216dbcc54611d1c3e6f0cc83757aaf).

For now I fixed it by removing all packages installed in mode 0700:

pip uninstall -y six docker-py websocket_client

Then reinstalling them by hand:

sudo su
# now umask is 0022
pip install six==1.10.0 docker-py==1.2.3