# Ansible Invalid response from docker daemon: key \\"ApiVersion\\" is missing **URL:** \ **Category:** Get Help\ **Tags:** fedora, ansible, docker, ansible-core\ **Created:** [March 17, 2025, 4:17pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-invalid-response-from-docker-daemon-key-apiversion-is-missing/41092 "2025-03-17T16:17:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![seetharam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@seetharam](https://forum.ansible.com/u/seetharam)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 4:17pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-invalid-response-from-docker-daemon-key-apiversion-is-missing/41092/1 "2025-03-17T16:17:15Z")
Hi, While trying to deploy docker container we are facing: FAILED! =\> {“changed”: false, “msg”: “Error connecting: Invalid response from docker daemon: key "ApiVersion" is missing.”} Please give some suggestions if any one encounter this kind of issue. ---
**Author:** ![felixfontein](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/felixfontein/32/7530_2.png) [@felixfontein](https://forum.ansible.com/u/felixfontein)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 4:41pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-invalid-response-from-docker-daemon-key-apiversion-is-missing/41092/2 "2025-03-17T16:41:16Z")
Hard to tell since you provide almost no information. If you’re using Amazon Linux 2023 and certain modules/plugins from the community.docker collection, you might be hit by a bug in Amazon Linux 2023: [Amazon Linux 2023: Invalid response from docker daemon: key \"ApiVersion\" is missing."} · Issue #1033 · ansible-collections/community.docker · GitHub](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/issues/1033) ---
**Author:** ![seetharam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@seetharam](https://forum.ansible.com/u/seetharam)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 6:25am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-invalid-response-from-docker-daemon-key-apiversion-is-missing/41092/3 "2025-03-18T06:25:23Z")
Earlier, I was able to restart and redeploy Docker containers through Ansible without any issues. However, suddenly, we’re encountering an **API version issue** , and we’re no longer able to start or redeploy containers on the target machines. This our ansible and python version: ansible [core 2.11.3] config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg configured module search path = [‘/home/user/.ansible/plugins/modules’, ‘/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules’] ansible python module location = /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ansible ansible collection location = /home/user/.ansible/collections:/usr/share/ansible/collections executable location = /usr/local/bin/ansible python version = 3.6.8 (default, Nov 15 2024, 08:11:39) [GCC 8.5.0 20210514 (Red Hat 8.5.0-22)] jinja version = 2.10.1 libyaml = True Here is an example of the playbook I used to retrieve Docker information from the target machines. - name: Test Ansible-Docker Connection hosts: all gather\_facts: no tasks: - name: Get Docker Info community.docker.docker\_host\_info: register: docker\_info - name: Show Docker Info debug: var: docker\_info fatal: [IP: FAILED! =\> {“ansible\_facts”: {“discovered\_interpreter\_python”: “/usr/libexec/platform-python”}, “can\_talk\_to\_docker”: false, “changed”: false, “msg”: “Error connecting: Invalid response from docker daemon: key "ApiVersion" is missing.”} fatal: [IP]: FAILED! =\> {“ansible\_facts”: {“discovered\_interpreter\_python”: “/usr/libexec/platform-python”}, “can\_talk\_to\_docker”: false, “changed”: false, “msg”: “Error connecting: Invalid response from docker daemon: key "ApiVersion" is missing.”} fatal: [IP]: FAILED! =\> {“ansible\_facts”: {“discovered\_interpreter\_python”: “/usr/libexec/platform-python”}, “can\_talk\_to\_docker”: false, “changed”: false, “msg”: “Error connecting: Invalid response from docker daemon: key "ApiVersion" is missing.”} fatal: [IP]: FAILED! =\> {“ansible\_facts”: {“discovered\_interpreter\_python”: “/usr/libexec/platform-python”}, “can\_talk\_to\_docker”: false, “changed”: false, “msg”: “Error connecting: Invalid response from docker daemon: key "ApiVersion" is missing.”} fatal: [IP]: FAILED! =\> {“ansible\_facts”: {“discovered\_interpreter\_python”: “/usr/libexec/platform-python”}, “can\_talk\_to\_docker”: false, “changed”: false, “msg”: “Error connecting: Invalid response from docker daemon: key "ApiVersion" is missing.”} fatal: [IP]: FAILED! =\> {“can\_talk\_to\_docker”: false, “changed”: false, “msg”: “Error connecting: Invalid response from docker daemon: key "ApiVersion" is missing.”} fatal: [IP]: FAILED! =\> {“can\_talk\_to\_docker”: false, “changed”: false, “msg”: “Error connecting: Invalid response from docker daemon: key "ApiVersion" is missing.”} fatal: [IP]: FAILED! =\> {“can\_talk\_to\_docker”: false, “changed”: false, “msg”: “Error connecting: Invalid response from docker daemon: key "ApiVersion" is missing.”} fatal: [IP]: FAILED! =\> {“can\_talk\_to\_docker”: false, “changed”: false, “msg”: “Error connecting: Invalid response from docker daemon: key "ApiVersion" is missing.”} fatal: [IP]: FAILED! =\> {“can\_talk\_to\_docker”: false, “changed”: false, “msg”: “Error connecting: Invalid response from docker daemon: key "ApiVersion" is missing.”} ---
**Author:** ![Nikhil\_Gedekar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/nikhil_gedekar/32/8112_2.png) [@Nikhil\_Gedekar](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Nikhil_Gedekar)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2025, 8:10am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-invalid-response-from-docker-daemon-key-apiversion-is-missing/41092/4 "2025-04-11T08:10:14Z")
Any solutions on this issue plz?? We are facing same issue is our env as well ---
**Author:** ![seetharam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@seetharam](https://forum.ansible.com/u/seetharam)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2025, 8:56am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-invalid-response-from-docker-daemon-key-apiversion-is-missing/41092/5 "2025-04-11T08:56:43Z")
Hi Nikhil, It fixed for me when I upgraded our Ansible docker community modules. I removed complete collections path and downloaded another later version fixed . ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/original/1X/1882d9a01da5d8996a862359b0913cc568a39b84.svg) [@system](https://forum.ansible.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2025, 8:57am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-invalid-response-from-docker-daemon-key-apiversion-is-missing/41092/6 "2025-05-11T08:57:18Z")
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