ERROR: Secsh channel open FAILED: Connect failed

Posted by Daniel Wachtel in SSH, updated on 30 April, 2020

I recently ran into the following error when trying to deploy remotely using docker-compose:

ERROR: Secsh channel 14 open FAILED: open failed: Connect failed

The issue is that the default SSH connections allowed is set to 10 and the command I was running was trying to use more connections then that.

Fixing the error

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