Cannot connect to the Docker daemon. Got me on my feet for few days. I have been trying to run Docker in bash ubuntu on windows (Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), as the official name goes). But I kept getting this error message:
“Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix:///var/run/docker.sock. Is the docker daemon running?“.
Docker was working fine on my Windows Machine and if I run the same commands on Powershell, it would work perfectly. I tried everything you can find online but nothing worked: restart, re-install Docker, execute docker commands using sudo, add the user to the dockergroup thingie.
sudo usermod -aG docker your_user
Eventually, I found the solution on this great post, https://blog.jayway.com/2017/04/19/running-docker-on-bash-on-windows/, that walks through how to connect Docker on WSL to Docker on Windows.
So basically, running docker against an engine on a different machine is actually quite easy, as Docker can expose a TCP endpoint which the CLI can attach to.
This TCP endpoint is turned off by default; to activate it, right-click the Docker icon in your taskbar and choose Settings, and tick the box next to “Expose daemon on tcp://localhost:2375 without TLS”.
With that done, all you need to do is instruct the CLI under Bash to connect to the engine running under Windows instead of to the non-existing engine running under Bash, like this:
$ docker -H tcp://0.0.0.0:2375 images
REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE
There are two ways to make this permanent – either add an alias for the above command, or better yet, export an environment variable which instructs Docker where to find the host engine:
$ echo “export DOCKER_HOST=’tcp://0.0.0.0:2375′” >> ~/.bashrc
$ source ~/.bashrc
Now, running docker commands from Bash works just like they’re supposed to.
$ docker run hello-world
Hello from Docker!This message shows that your installation appears to be working correctly.
Full transcript is captured in the below screenshot:
Hope this was helpful!
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