portainer: mac_address is being ignored in docker-compose files

I tested this and it’s an issue with an older version of Docker Compose, an updated version will be included in the 2.20 release which will resolve this issue.

I had this issue in a different context. I found the following and it led to the solution of my problem.

Note Container runtimes might reject this value (ie. Docker Engine >= v25.0). In that case, you should use networks.mac_address instead.

See here.

So I switched from

version: '3.8' # Example version
services:
  your_service:
    image: your_image
    mac_address: your_mac_address

to

version: '3.8' # Example version
services:
  your_service:
    image: your_image
    networks:
      default:
        mac_address: your_mac_address

Now, the mac address is correctly set in my container.

Is there an estimated release date* for 2.20 @Nick-Portainer ?

No offical date I can provide, but the team is very close 😃

Great, thanks for testing that and providing feedback that it’s now working. Please remember 2.20 is not currently released and the version I provided is just for testing 😃

Figured out the syntax I had was just wrong should have been like this for version 25:

version: '3.8'
services:
  nginx:
    image: nginx:latest
    networks:
      dhcp:
        mac_address: de:ad:be:ef:00:01
networks:
  dhcp:
    name: dbrv100
    external: true

Looks like it is working now yay!

            "Networks": {
                "dbrv100": {
                    "IPAMConfig": {},
                    "Links": null,
                    "Aliases": [
                        "mactest-nginx-1",
                        "nginx",
                        "############"
                    ],
                    "MacAddress": "de:ad:be:ef:00:01",
                    "NetworkID": "0b...",
                    "EndpointID": "75...",
                    "Gateway": "10.0.42.1",
                    "IPAddress": "10.0.42.121",
                    "IPPrefixLen": 24,
                    "IPv6Gateway": "",
                    "GlobalIPv6Address": "",
                    "GlobalIPv6PrefixLen": 0,
                    "DriverOpts": null,
                    "DNSNames": [
                        "mactest-nginx-1",
                        "nginx",
                        "############"
                    ]
                }
            }

Are you able to point to the fix in github I can’t seem to find it. Can I manually build it in some way?

Hey, so you can try our dev image of 2.20 please keep in mind this it not live and is not suitable for production and should only be used for testing, please let me know how this goes for you.

Business Edition https://hub.docker.com/r/portainerci/portainer-ee/tags portainerci/portainer-ee:2.20 Community Edition https://hub.docker.com/r/portainerci/portainer/tags docker pull portainerci/portainer:2.20

Is there an ETA on the 2.20 release?

I can’t give dates but we are now in code freeze, so it’s close 😃

I tested this and it’s an issue with an older version of Docker Compose, an updated version will be included in the 2.20 release which will resolve this issue.

I’m eager to see the fix and try again in-place. Thank you for helping me escalate this issue.

Thanks for raising this, I am going to follow this up internally and test this. I will give updates here

Still happening:

Server Version: 2.19.4	
Database Version: 2.19.4
CI Build Number: 35427	
Image Tag: linux-amd64-2.19.4

Compilation tools:
Nodejs v18.19.0
Yarn v1.22.21
Webpack v5.88.1
Go v1.20.5

I am also seeing the same issue. I ended up rolling back to 2.17.1 to restore functionality. Seems it was introduced with 2.18.0

Rather run latest patches/versions. Please advice on an eta for the fix.

Sample compose doc. Seeing the issue across all of them:

`
version: "3"
services:
  watchtower:
    image: containrrr/watchtower:latest
    container_name: watchtower-vm
    mac_address: da:de:40:30:22:ae
    environment:
      - WATCHTOWER_SCHEDULE=0 0 4 * * *
      - WATCHTOWER_CLEANUP=true
      - WATCHTOWER_INCLUDE_RESTARTING=true
      - WATCHTOWER_INCLUDE_STOPPED=true
      - WATCHTOWER_DEBUG=false
      - TZ=America/Phoenix
      - DOCKER_CONFIG=/config
    restart: unless-stopped

    networks: 
      - eth3

    volumes:
      - type: bind
        source: /var/run/docker.sock
        target: /var/run/docker.sock
      - config-data:/config/

volumes:
  config-data:
    name: docker-config
    external: true    

networks:
  eth3:
    name: qnet-dhcp-eth3-6d6da6
    external: true

`