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19 Feb 2018 • 1 min read

Deleting /var/lib/docker with devicemapper

If you're running docker with devicemapper as the storage driver, there are a few steps to recover after deleting /var/lib/docker: $ sudo service docker stop $ sudo rm -rf /var/lib/docker $ sudo lvremove docker $ docker-storage-setup $ sudo service docker start This will help you recover from errors like Error starting

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24 Feb 2016 • 1 min read

Antipattern: ECS + yum update

This is part of our antipatterns series. Ouch! With the recent bugs in ecs-agent 1.8.0, you may be trying to roll back to amzn-ami-2015.09.e or earlier to get a last-known-good ecs agent. If you have yum update in your userdata, however, it updates ecs-init and that,

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