VM creation failed - remote docker environment

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My builds have begun to fail during the - setup_remote_docker step with:

Allocating a remote Docker Engine
Assigned Docker Engine request id: 244790
  waiting ..............................

Got error while creating host: VM creation failed

Have retried twice and same result.

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We’ve seen this a couple of times as well for our builds.

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Seeing this now as well on our builds.

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Chiming in here too, as we see this on almost every build, but no status updates. Sometimes retrying works, sometimes it doesn’t.

Failing command: Setup a remote Docker engine
Exit code:
Output:
Allocating a remote Docker Engine
Assigned Docker Engine request id: 1046895
waiting …

Got error while creating host: VM creation failed
We had an unexpected error preparing a VM for this build, potentially due to our infrastructure or cloud provider. Please retry the builds in few minutes minutes

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Also experiencing this problem when: Setup a remote Docker engine :frowning:

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Started experiencing this after enabling docker layer caching reusable: true, exclusive: false. Changing back to defaults doesn’t seem to work. Also using Workflow.

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Also experiencing this problem with reusable: true.

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Allocating a remote Docker Engine
Assigned Docker Engine request id: 3503652
waiting …

Got error while creating host: instance not ready yet: pending
Got error while creating host: instance not ready yet: pending
We had an unexpected error preparing a VM for this build, potentially due to our infrastructure or cloud provider. Please retry the build in a few minutes.

We had an unexpected error preparing a VM for this build, potentially due to our infrastructure or cloud provider. Please retry the build in a few minutes."""