vmware / vmware/photon

first try on photon-os for docker-swarm fails with cgroup

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Description

Describe the bug

Having fresh install on photon-os giving it a try as I use VMware and usually use Ubuntu/Debian, I wanted to give photon a try for use with docker/swarm.

I've had several fresh installs of photon and tried to setup swarm-pit for master/management like (see reproduction steps).
Each time swarmpit install fails to deploy and on console-log of vmware-guest running photon there is this error -- no matter I give the VM-Guest 2 GB of RAM or 8 GB:
cgroup out of memory: killed

Reproduction steps
  1. docker swarm init
  2. docker run -it --rm
    --name swarmpit-installer
    --volume /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
    swarmpit/install:1.9

Starting swarmpit.......................FAILED!
Swarmpit is not responding for a long time. Aborting installation...:(
Please check logs and cluster status for details.
...

Expected behavior

swarmpit should run

Additional context

cat /etc/os-release
NAME="VMware Photon OS"
VERSION="4.0"

docker version
Client: Docker Engine - Community
Version: 24.0.5
API version: 1.43
Go version: go1.20.12
Git commit: ced0996
Built: Thu Dec 21 03:16:59 2023
OS/Arch: linux/amd64
Context: default

Server: Docker Engine - Community
Engine:
Version: 24.0.5
API version: 1.43 (minimum version 1.12)
Go version: go1.20.12
Git commit: a61e2b4
Built: Thu Dec 21 03:18:08 2023
OS/Arch: linux/amd64
Experimental: false
containerd:
Version: 1.6.8
GitCommit: 9cd3357b7fd7218e4aec3eae239db1f68a5a6ec6
runc:
Version: 1.1.12
GitCommit:
docker-init:
Version: 0.19.0
GitCommit: de40ad0

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Research direction

Start by reproducing the failure on VMware Photon OS 4.0 with the reported Docker 24.0.5 versions: initialize a swarm and run the swarmpit/install:1.9 container. Inspect the VMware guest console for the cgroup out-of-memory message and check Docker logs and cluster status. Done means the installer completes and Swarmpit responds without the cgroup failure.

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Assessment

Tech stack
docker
Domain
devops, operating-systems
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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