Cannot link to a non running container 2023

Hi, I was workign in a project with CI/CD and after 5 months of inactivity I upload some modification and the pipeline started but failed.
I got this error:

error during connect: Post http://docker:2375/v1.40/auth: dial tcp: lookup docker on 169.254.169.254:53: no such host
Cleaning up project directory and file based variables
00:01
ERROR: Job failed: exit code 1

I never changed the code of my pipeline and now Im getting this nasty error

Im using gitlab.com with the free usage_quota, with 1% usage this month.

This is my gitlab-ci.yml:

stages:
  - build
  - publish

#BUILD DEVELOPMENT
build_development:
  image: docker:stable
  services:
    - docker:dind    
  variables:
    DOCKER_DRIVER: overlay2
    DOCKER_TLS_CERTDIR: ""
  #branches su cui eseguire lo scriptino
  rules:
    - if: $CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME == "development"
  stage: build
  #Se pipeline invocata da altro branch
  script:
    # ADD GOOGLE SERVICE KEY    
    - echo "${GCLOUD_SERVICE_KEY}" > ${HOME}/gcloud-service-key.json
    #Per muovermi nelle cartelle nel git mi muovo con questo comando
    - cd MyProjectAPI
    # BUILD AND UPLOAD TO GOOGLE REPO IMAGES
    - docker login -u _json_key --password-stdin https://eu.gcr.io < ${HOME}/gcloud-service-key.json
    - docker build --tag $IMAGE_DEVELOPMENT_NAME -f Dockerfile . #the . means build the image from within the build context
    - docker tag $IMAGE_DEVELOPMENT_NAME "eu.gcr.io/$GCLOUD_PROJECT_ID/$IMAGE_DEVELOPMENT_NAME"
    - docker push "eu.gcr.io/$GCLOUD_PROJECT_ID/$IMAGE_DEVELOPMENT_NAME:latest"

This is my Dockerfile:

FROM mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/sdk:7.0 AS build

WORKDIR /app
EXPOSE 8080
    
# Install production dependencies.
# Copy csproj and restore as distinct layers.
COPY . ./
RUN dotnet restore

# Copy local code to the container image.

# Build a release artifact.
RUN dotnet publish -c Release -o out

# Use Microsoft's official runtime .NET image.
# https://hub.docker.com/_/microsoft-dotnet-core-aspnet/
FROM mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/aspnet:7.0 AS runtime

# Install System.Drawing native dependencies on ASP.NET
RUN apt-get update \
    && apt-get install -y --allow-unauthenticated \
        libc6-dev \
        libgdiplus \
        libx11-dev \
        libfontconfig1 \
     && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

COPY --from=build /app/out ./

# Run the web service on container startup.
ENTRYPOINT ["dotnet", "MyProjectAPI.dll"]

The yaml file is in the root of the project, meanwhile the Dockerfile is inside the project folder.

This code worked for 2 years and now It doesnt.
Thanks everybody and hope somebody knows how to fix it.

I already read a lot of post here in tforum but they are all old

Hi @manatee19

it was already discussed on this forum. It is caused by latest Docker version. You need to fallback to Docker 23