Compose, like the Docker CLI, connects to the docker daemon using a unix socket. It's highly possible that at high load, the engine takes an overly long time to respond to requests, causing this error to appear. As the error message suggests, try playing around with the COMPOSE_HTTP_TIMEOUT value and see whether stability improves as a result.
Compose, like the Docker CLI, connects to the docker daemon using a unix socket. It's highly possible that at high load, the engine takes an overly long time to respond to requests, causing this error to appear. As the error message suggests, try playing around with the
COMPOSE_HTTP_TIMEOUT
value and see whether stability improves as a result.