Error response from daemon This node is not a swarm manager Use docker swarm init or docker swarm join to connect this node to swarm and try again

Question

Hi Guys,

I am trying to create a secret in docker. But it is showing me the below error.

$ echo "This is a secret" | docker secret create my_secret
Error response from daemon: This node is not a swarm manager. Use "docker swarm init" or "docker swarm join" to connect this node to swarm and try again.

How can I solve this error?

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

The secret very much depends on swarm mode and can effectively be considered to be a swarm mode component. You should first check your swarm cluster using the below command.

$ docker swarm init