If you are running a legacy version of the Docker daemon you will encounter the following error message:

ERROR: Error response from daemon: client is newer than
server (client API version: 1.26, server API version: 1.24)

This can be resolved by configuring your agent with the following environment variable:

DOCKER_API_VERSION=1.24

This error message is encountered because Docker has a versioned protocol, and legacy versions of Docker prevent newer versions of the protocol from connecting. The solution is to downgrade the protocol using the DOCKER_API_VERSION environment variable.

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