Error on context deadline with docker, what's the meaning?

Question

What is the meaning and the cause of error "Context deadline exceeded or context deadline unknown" when using docker, with docker stack deploy? I see many posts with this error in differents environment and contexts. But i m not able to understand how to avoid this problem.

When i have networks error i know what to do, but not in theses cases.

Intermediary

It's a fairly generic error, from tools implemented in Go, saying "something took to long". It frequently means there is a network-configuration problem and not a code error. Do you have a specific case where this is coming up, ideally including a minimal reproducible example? – Spiry

not really, this happens when a do a docker stack deploy within an existing swarm. Not often, but sometimes. What i want to know, if there is a solution or a way that i can put to retry my deploy stack or how to resolve the problem automatically before retrying. – Intermediary

Answer 1

In my case I faced this message when DNS setting was wrong. Changing the DNS setting to 1.1.1.1 solved the issue.

Homogenesis

Answer 2

In my case, it was my version of Tilt that was causing this to occur (e.g had to upgrade from v0.33.2 --> v0.33.10)

Dhobi