Cloud installation detected error message while running bin/magento-docker ece-deploy

Question

I'm having a hard time setting up my local Magento cloud environment. I'm following this guide:

https://devdocs.magento.com/cloud/docker/docker-development.html

The exact steps I'm taking are:

1. Cloning the magento-cloud project: git clone https://github.com/magento/magento-cloud.git.
2. Adding my enterprise credentials to the auth.json file using composer config.
3. Running composer update.
4. Running this command to create the docker-compose file with xdebug and mutagen file sync (on Linux): vendor/bin/ece-docker build:compose --mode="developer" --with-xdebug --set-docker-host --sync-engine="mutagen"
5. Running docker-compose up -d and then docker-compose run --rm deploy cloud-deploy

After that, I got the error:

Installing data... Reading /<magento_root>/composer.json
Loading config file /<magento_root>/composer.json
Failed to initialize global composer: Composer could not find the config file: /<magento_root>/var/composer_home/composer.json
To initialize a project, please create a composer.json file as described in the https://getcomposer.org/ "Getting Started" section.

So I created an empty composer.json file in /var/composer_home following the advice in this answer. That solved that issue, but now I'm getting this:

Loading config file /app/composer.json
Loading config file /app/auth.json
Reading /app/auth.json
Reading /app/var/composer_home/composer.json
Loading config file /app/var/composer_home/composer.json
Reading /app/vendor/composer/installed.json
Reading /app/composer.lock
Checking for "magento/composer-root-update-plugin: 1.1.2" for the Web Setup Wizard...
Cloud installation detected, not installing magento/composer-root-update-plugin for the Web Setup Wizard
Reading /app/composer.json
Loading config file /app/composer.json
Loading config file /app/auth.json
Reading /app/auth.json
Reading /app/var/composer_home/composer.json
Loading config file /app/var/composer_home/composer.json
Reading /app/vendor/composer/installed.json
Reading /app/composer.lock
Checking for "magento/composer-root-update-plugin: 1.1.2" for the Web Setup Wizard...
Cloud installation detected, not installing magento/composer-root-update-plugin for the Web Setup Wizard

I've tried running bin/magento-docker ece-deploy instead of `````docker-compose run --rm deploy cloud-deploy```, but that didn't help. I also deleted everything and started from scratch just in case I missed something but had the same result.

How can I get rid of it?

Answer 1

Here's a workaround - after creating the project from Magento Repo, create the composer.json file

cd var

mkdir composer_home

cd composer_home

vim composer.json

composer.json contents

{

}

Hope this works for you.