DEV Community A constructive and inclusive social network for software developers. With docker, it is possible to mount a host system's directory or files in the container. I think spending some money for that is perfectly fine regarding the value Docker Desktop is providing to you. Looks too much tricky for me. For some reason I can't get internet connection inside the container. If you only run one it doesn't hurt, but you could use Docker's default location, /var/run/docker/containerd/containerd.sock. I still need to work and discuss with non-dev people, you know. Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgrade. Not the answer you're looking for? Great we have now docker in windows running with WSL2. It will become hidden in your post, but will still be visible via the comment's permalink. So is there an alternative on Windows to continue to legally use containers with a docker command and a nice UI like VSCode without paying a licence : the answer is YES ! Privacy Policy, This website uses cookies and Google Analytics to ensure you get the best experience on our website. Staging Ground Beta 1 Recap, and Reviewers needed for Beta 2. Proprietary software, not limited to MS Word and PowerPoint. What does not work is binding or mounting volumes to local directories, which used to work, when Docker Desktop was installed. Microsoft offers a more detailed comparison in the docs. git enables Scoop to update itself. I love POSIX as well, but I don't have a choice. I tried deleting pid file but i dont have permission for it i tried using sudo systemctl stop docker and then running it but error is still the same. Docker - with buildkit For Alpine or Fedora, use adduser myusername to create a new user. Unflagging bowmanjd will restore default visibility to their posts. ){3}[0-9]{1,3}" | grep -v 127.0.0.1 | awk '{ print $2 }' | cut -f2 -d: I am trying to follow the above steps on Alpine and i am not able to figure out the equivalent for launching dockerd to get the ip address. If you open Services, you should now see the Docker Engine listed: It will start automatically on Windows boot. If, however, you manually invoke dockerd in some way, then the following may be desirable in your .bashrc or .profile, if you opted for the shared docker socket directory: The above checks for the docker socket in /mnt/wsl/shared-docker/docker.sock and, if present, sets the $DOCKER_HOST environment variable accordingly. Windows 11 Education: 2 TB. Try wsl wslpath from Powershell, or just wslpath from Linux, to see the options. NOTE: If you have any issue with the network, check the following location and edit its nameserver IP to 8.8.8.8:. Add this directory in the path for executables : First, I collect the IP address of my default distro with the wsl command. sudo dockerd -H ifconfig eth0 | grep -E "([0-9]{1,3}. Full-stack developer, focused on PHP/Laravel and Go fan. To subscribe to this RSS feed, copy and paste this URL into your RSS reader. Hence I could put "tcp://localhost:2375" in VsCode and the calls will be redirected to dockerd running in WSL2-Ubuntu. To do so, we just need first to run a powershell script launching dockerd in WSL2 and once dockerd is listening we can simply use the command docker (maintained by Stefan Scherer). If the whoami command returnes "root", then you will want to add a non-root user. Maybe some tooling you use can't handle Podman, or you just want to put WSL through its paces. I am stuck here trying to start dockerd from the Windows PowerShell (in admin mode): I only have one entry if I look for iptables: $ ls /usr/sbin/iptable* Need to get 288 kB of archives. Before we mosey along, though: are you aware of Podman? sudo dockerd. They can still re-publish the post if they are not suspended. Ive been running WSL on potato laptops and now I high end one with no heat issues at all. code of conduct because it is harassing, offensive or spammy. My goal is to use the docker-cli in Windows (docker.exe), but using Linux containers, without the installation of Docker Desktop. The builder is the oldest and slowest, but gets the job done. I summarize the files available here: No doubt there are ways these can be tweaked to be more useful and reliable; feel free to post in the comments. But I have other things to do than spend my time trying to argue with people that we should be allowed to get Linux machines on our corporate network. Run Docker in WSL (Windows 10/11) without Docker Desktop | by Sung Kim | Geek Culture | Medium 500 Apologies, but something went wrong on our end. Impress So, the Windows deamon is part of the product "Docker Desktop" then? It might be worth mentioning that as of a few months ago, the default WSL2 install (Ubuntu) can be configured to support systemd with a two-line config file. Then the following, when placed in /etc/docker/daemon.json, will set the docker host to the shared socket: Most Linux distributions use systemd or other init system, but WSL has its own init system. It works now. I got this error when I tried to run "sudo dockerd -H ifconfig eth0 | grep -E "([0-9]{1,3}. Except for you, of course, for which I am extremely grateful. Get rid of docker desktop. Here is what I get: $ update-alternatives --config iptables Success? message. How to copy Docker images from one host to another without using a repository. You can even configure this in Windows Terminal: Second, my recommended method, is to use dockeraccesshelper to enable and configure access to the Docker Service for non-privileged users. Hello, thank you for this article. However, if you would like to have the option of sharing the Docker socket system-wide, across WSL distributions, then a shared directory accessible to all is needed. My running container has the following DNS Servers configured: 172.27.64.1 and 192.168..1. No one tells me these things. Why do we place the docker socket in the \mnt\wsl folder? I had heard at Microsoft Ignite that Docker was super excited to partner with Microsoft to develop the Docker Engine for Windows Server. on the top right of the section "Containers" and select "Edit settings", You'll get around 56 settings and you search for "Docker:Host" where you put the line "tcp://172.20.5.64:2375" where you can replace the highlighted ip address by the one you got before, Once done, you come back to the panel and you click on "refresh" icon (top right of each sections) and you would get information from your dockerd running in WSL2. ){3}[0-9]{1,3}" | grep -v 127.0.0.1 | awk '{ print $2 }' | cut -f2 -d:" And I can't see my eth0 configs in ifconfig command Other editions have even higher limits. In WSL2, it's not possible to assign IP address but, I can use the windows port forwarding to redirect a local port from the host to a specific one of my distribution. For instance, install and configure Fedora, or any other distro for which you can obtain a rootfs in tar format and then wsl --import rootfs.tar. For anyone struggling with using this behind a proxy, I found the only configuration file that dockerd looks at is /etc/environment, so set the likes of HTTP_PROXY, HTTPS_PROXY, and NO_PROXY in there before starting Docker. I got this error, I solved it by running WSL itself with admin privileges when opening the WSL window to run sudo dockerd. Is your user a "sudoer"? I reinstalled the Debian WSL. sudo dockerd -H ifconfig eth0 | grep -E "([0-9]{1,3}. Do you want to run a container? If the result is a random hash string, then you are good. At the moment I am stuck at step Launch dockerd and I get this error (image below). WARN[2021-11-06T15:39:10.294801200+05:30] Support for listening on TCP without authentication or explicit intent to run without authentication will be removed in the next release host="tcp://169.254.255.121:2375" Unless I missed a step above, when I got to "update-alternatives --config iptables" it's still broke on my system. If you want a more generalized "if this is wsl, then set the socket pro-actively" then you may prefer the following, which simply check for the existence of a /mnt/wsl directory and sets the docker socket if so: If configured as above, I recommend always running docker from wsl. I did "sudo apt-get install iptables" to be sure. Strange my Debian is so far behind. Debian 9, I see. There should be several lines of info, warnings related to tls, and the like, with something like API listen on 172.20.5.64:2375 at the end. dockeraccesshelper is an open source PowerShell module to allow non-privileged users to connect to the Docker Service. Another option may eventually be Rancher Desktop if they add Windows support, but it is currently limited to Linux containers. Setting up Docker for Windows Containers manually is not really that hard to do. Reading about what goes on under the hood is an entertaining and informative endeavor, as well. Never miss out on developer content you need to maintain a healthy developer career. To do so, enter sudo visudo and add the following line (if your visudo uses vi or vim, then be sure to press "i" to begin editing, and hit ESC when done editing): Save and exit (":wq" if the editor is vi, or Ctrl-x if it is nano), and then you can test if sudo dockerd prompts for a password or not. If you only plan on using one WSL distro, this next step isn't strictly necessary. I'm pretty sure using the nftable subsystem is eventually what is making things not work - if I could get iptables-legacy it might be different. Just open a new Ubuntu window and start playing with Docker!. error:failed to load listeners: listen tcp 169.254.218.38:2375: bind: cannot assign requested address VS Code VS Code Remote Development; Docker Desktop for Windows; WSL2 Docker provides the standalone Windows binaries for the Docker Daemon as well as the Docker CLI. To tell what version you are running, run winver in Powershell or CMD, or just type Win key and R (-r) to open the Run dialog and then enter winver. To work around this, you can, if you choose, tell sudo to grant passwordless access to dockerd, as long as the user is a member of the docker group. It can be any group ID that is not in use. How do I get into a Docker container's shell? After setting it up, scoop install docker docker-compose will get you some familiar tools, then an SSH server such as Dropbear or OpenSSH on the WSL side A simplified method I recommend: a Powershell function that calls the WSL docker, passing along any arguments. Dockerd does work. Is it possible to create a concave light? But please - why did Windows paths work with Docker Desktop before? So I wonder if Windows 10 wsl Debian changed - I can't use the update-alternatives --config iptables. In fact this is what Docker Desktop is doing, allowing all Windows native applications to use npipe docker context. The only option that we had is to run a corporate-managed VM on Azure, with their own "linux" which is a special build from oracle that I never heared of before they mentionned it, and where no open source tools seems to offer any kind of support. Asking for help, clarification, or responding to other answers. Want to buy me coffee? I reused and I adapted it to make VisualCode working with dockerd under WSL2. That sounds odd. Thanks for keeping DEV Community safe. For communication over the socket, privileged access is required. WARN[2021-11-06T15:39:10.292918800+05:30] You can override this by explicitly specifying '--tls=false' or '--tlsverify=false' host="tcp://169.254.255.121:2375" A Python enthusiast. docker context will likely be your friend. Use Podman on Windows to build custom WSL distro images. iptables v1.6.0, I think iptables installs when Debian itself is installed. I recommend the following: The first line tells WSL to cease auto-configuring the /etc/resolv.conf file. At this point if you run docker run hello-world:nanoserver as a non-privileged user, you will encounter the following error: One, to always use an elevated PowerShell to work with Docker. If the above script is placed in .bashrc (most Linux distros) or .profile (distros like Alpine that have Ash/Dash as the default shell), or other shell init script, then it has an unfortunate side effect: you will likely be prompted for a password most every time a new terminal window is launched. I've played around with setting DNS in the container explicitly using the /etc/docker/daemon.json with things like "dns": ["1.1.1.1", "8.8.8.8"], but if the container can't even get connectivity to these ips that's not going to work.. My Debian environment does not have any iptables configured. A couple of updates when running in Windows 11H2 (and Ubuntu 22.04 in my case): 1) systemd is now native in Windows 11H2, BUT needs an updated WSL2 install (I was using WSL v0.63 and I believe native systemd support is in v0.68 onwards) - otherwise you get, Upgrading WSL to latest version means that updating /etc/wsl.conf with. Kubernetes can be installed and configured many ways and Dcoker DEsktop will give you one version. Why do academics stay as adjuncts for years rather than move around? The Docker engine includes tools that automate container image creation. You could also make a batch file with the appropriate command in it. Have you managed to mount volumes from windows to docker image running in WSL2 ? Third, I launch in my distro dockerd with the IP, configures its own guest (rancher-desktop). On a normal Azure VM it runs without problems. Interesting; I just did this successfully last weekend. Exactly my thoughts, there's too much complexity here + there's more comprehensive guide on how to install docker in Linux on official docker website which takes half of this article. Is it known that BQP is not contained within NP? Those are a bit hidden and not easy to find. I'm not sure what happened to the previous reply: $ dpkg -S /usr/sbin/iptables-legacy See details regarding the companion Github repo by scrolling to the bottom. This is because all Windows accounts use the same VM to build and run containers. My concern was to continue to debug from Visual Studio 2019 and Visual Code directly in container. Would you be interested in how to do same without so much trickery? Again, try wsl -l -q to see a list of your WSL distributions if you are unsure which one to use. Redefined, https://download.docker.com/linux/${ID}/gpg, Ubuntu on WSL2 : in Microsoft Store Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Docker extension for VSCode : directly from Visual Code Extensions Marketplace. I was able to fix it with adding | head -n 1 at the end, so final command would look like: You need to escape the dot (.) I had in mind to make my existing toolchains still working (VSCode, Visual Studio). Install Docker In PowerShell (run as Administrator) enter: Install-Module -Name DockerMsftProvider -Repository PSGallery -Force At the prompt, enter " Y " to confirm the installation of NuGet. Docker on Windows without Hyper-V | by Chris | poweruser.blog Write Sign up Sign In 500 Apologies, but something went wrong on our end. Additionally, I found this to be helpful for configuring dockerd to start when opening a new terminal (if it hasn't already been started). You can use Docker for Desktop, but if you don't want to pay for a license, . I honestly haven't tried this with older versions of Debian. DEV Community 2016 - 2023. Most upvoted and relevant comments will be first. What's the difference between a power rail and a signal line? To see what group IDs are already assigned that are 1000 or above: Can't decide what number to use? Hey, great stuff! Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=7&arch=x86_64&repo=os&infra=container error was You can just download them, put them in your PATH, register the Docker Daemon as a service, start it and run your Windows containers like youre used to. After installation has completed run from Windows wsl --shutdown Now let's ensure init.d and docker start run on boot (based on this guide) Windows 10 version is sourced on this guide Running Docker on WSL2 without Docker Desktop (the right way) - DEV Community Set Docker to start on boot Note that DOCKER_DISTRO should be set to the distro you want to have running dockerd. Run Computer Management as an administrator and navigate to Local Users* and Groups > Groups > docker-users. Made with love and Ruby on Rails. Sometimes, one just needs Docker to work. See more details about the Docker subscription model here. Such methods will be explored in a later article, but I encourage you, reader, to explore. Containers and images created with Docker Desktop are shared between all user accounts on machines where it is installed. This means that every docker command is actually executed on the WSL subsystem and paths should be specified accordingly. If you use Docker Desktop the daemon is actually running in Windows this is why it was working before. More information about the setup, my NAS and Disks are less then a year old and in perfect condition. Yeah, I have actually changed the instructions, removing the iptables:false, as using iptables-legacy seems like the right way to do it. I got this so I just added "iptables": false to my daemon.json and this error was averted. INFO[2021-11-06T15:39:08.506977000+05:30] Starting up There is some socket magic that I don't know by memory because I just keep the command in a gist. at the end of the day, everybody still has bills to pay.. . so before that gets out of control: I'd like to share one that I did discover just this morning: devopstales.github.io/home/docker- it has lots of helpful information presented in a clear way, and the alternatives it lists don't require any "special magic" to get working, which might be very appealing for some. I mainly followed these instructions to install Ubuntu 20.04-LTS using WSL2 and prepare everything that dockerd is running inside this instance. I'm flummoxed. Choose a number greater than 1000 and less than 65534. lack of proper bluetooth drivers (mSBC not supported, so headset sound was crap), Teams would not switch to headset mode automatically, nor detect when BT headset was connected after app was opened), no edit and continue on .net core (and no, I won't change the language we write at work), watching 4K videos on my 4K screen had tearing (and yes, watching videos on my break is a requirement). After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. And that's all! The following often works, but is not advisable when launching WSL docker from Windows: Instead of doing the above haphazardly, when launching WSL docker from Powershell, two recommendations: Then point your browser to http://localhost:8080, and happiness will result. Is there a single-word adjective for "having exceptionally strong moral principles"? WARN[2021-11-06T15:39:08.509171500+05:30] Binding to IP address without --tlsverify is insecure and gives root access on this machine to everyone who has access to your network. When did this happen? But if you, like me, feel that all the added complexity of Docker Desktop is unnecessary, you don't need Windows containers, or you are simply tired of that whale in the system tray taking so long then perhaps you want to run the docker daemon (dockerd) in the WSL distro of your choice and be happy. To learn more, see our tips on writing great answers. The daemon is running in wsl so probably you need to specify paths in the wsl subsistem. Making statements based on opinion; back them up with references or personal experience. This is a very useful tool, to say the least. Docker only supports Docker Desktop on Windows for those versions of Windows 10 that are still within Microsoft's servicing timeline. It seems like there is another package that adds the iptables-legacy links. I suggest using the configuration file /etc/docker/daemon.json to set dockerd launch parameters. I have installed Rancher Desktop application on Windows 10 and set it to use docker as container runtime. High School, The Internet, Mother Nature, and Life itself.. Essentially i run docker, vs code , gpu compute (inside containers too) all on ubuntu wsl2. Hopefully you will see something like "Version 21H2. I will definitely try that, and update the article. I also tried the itzg/minecraft-server with the proper tags. You can follow the directions there in order to correct DNS, but of course eliminate any occurrence of sudo in those commands, as you do not have it yet, and you should still be root anyway. Use this image for your development process (developing, building and testing applications). From there you can simply use these paths as youve mentioned. I don't care whether it's the fault of F5 or the community for not working -- if I can't VPN in, I can't work. To make it easy to use I have packaged it into a container, so it is easy to deploy with a single docker run. The top 50 must-have CLI tools, including some scripts to help you automate the installation and updating of these tools on various systems/distros. and run docker build with --add-host=host.docker.internal:host-gateway, I can see that I can ping the host from the container, but the container cannot seem to ping any external ip, even the cloudflare dns 1.1.1.1 or google's 8.8.8.8. If you instead received an error containing something like "Sorry, user myusername may not run sudo" then you may need to follow the steps again, from the beginning. sudo apt remove docker docker-engine docker.io containerd runc, curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/${ID}/gpg | sudo apt-key add -, echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/${ID} ${VERSION_CODENAME} stable" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list This guide includes instructions for launching dockerd in Debian, Ubuntu, Alpine, and Fedora. Contrary to what the length of this article might suggest, getting Docker working on WSL is fairly simple. If you dislike the Windows Store, there are other options. Thanks so much for this @jonathan Bowman, was really helpful, don't forget to do another article on installing docker-compose on a WSL Distro without passing through Docker Desktop, might be minimal but it would be a decent supplement to this awesome article of yours. Posted on Feb 14, 2021 By clicking Post Your Answer, you agree to our terms of service, privacy policy and cookie policy. It's a peaceful symbiosis. Those are a bit hidden and not easy to find. Still same error after switching explicitly to iptables-legacy in debian 11. In the original post it says you only need to do this for Debian but not Ubuntu, and I'm using Ubuntu so I skipped that step originally. On your windows, you need to install a couple of things : (Inspired from the Jonathan Bowman's article), Check if sudo is installed if not : *apt install sudo*`, You would see something like sudo: x:27:myusername, Otherwise, We use usermod to add an user to the sudoer group. I receive the same problems, the installation just stops or freezes forever. Ubuntu works correctly, I think because they still use iptables and not the nftables in Debian that Docker apparently doesn't really understand unless you configure nftables just right. By default, they each may have a different ID, so a new one is in order. Windows Containers Is the underlining technology platform that allows us to run a Windows Container Instance which combines the usage of many Windows Server technology like Hyper-V, File Server, Networking, etc. In particular you should specify paths in WSL, usually your C:/ drive is mounted in WSL under \mnt\c. Install official Docker release sudo apt install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io Add user to docker group sudo usermod -aG docker $USER "Then close that WSL window, and launch WSL again. When signed in as the user you set up (try su myusername if you are still root), can you sudo -v without an error? On Alpine, that's apk add sudo and on Fedora, dnf install sudo. ){3}[0-9]{1,3}" | grep -v 127.0.0.1 |awk '{ print $2 }' | cut -f2 -d:`, And you get the IP address, as described before, In the Powershell windows of the terminal, you can run the following command Templates let you quickly answer FAQs or store snippets for re-use. Thanks for contributing an answer to Stack Overflow! Microsoft's has step-by-step instructions on how to upgrade to WSL 2. If unsure of the name, simply run wsl -l -q from Powershell to see your list of WSL distributions. If and only if you opted to use the shared docker socket in /mnt/wsl/shared-docker as detailed above, first set the DOCKER_HOST environment variable: You should see the "Hello from Docker!" I even removed and installed fresh wsl. While you can create container images manually by running the docker commit command, adopting an automated image creation process has many benefits, including: Storing container images as code. For Linux containers you can install the Docker Daemon in WSL2. Weird -- containerd is already installed on mine; I can update the instructions accordingly. Using apt install --reinstall iptables. Thank you! I will write an article eventually, but it is there. Browse other questions tagged, Where developers & technologists share private knowledge with coworkers, Reach developers & technologists worldwide, How are you mounting the directories? If you went with the default docker socket location of /var/run/docker.sock instead of the shared socket directory of /mnt/wsl/shared-docker as detailed above, then the script can be something like this: You may choose whatever location you would like for your docker logs, of course. The install documentation has two sections. Success. DEV Community A constructive and inclusive social network for software developers. Hello , I tried the same, to create a docker image with a Windows Container, which should host a PowerBI Data Gateway. OS Build 19044.1586". The service (dockerd) and client (docker) communicate over a socket and/or a network port. For this, I run the powershell script lines in windows terminal running as administrator : $ip = (wsl sh -c "hostname -I").Split(" ")[0], netsh interface portproxy add v4tov4 listenport=2375 connectport=2375 connectaddress=$ip. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Docker Desktop gives you access to both Windows Containers and Linux containers, by leveraging WSL 2. If you want Docker to work on Windows and WSL 2, installing Docker Desktop is most likely the way to go. Paul Knulst 2K Followers Husband, father of two, geek, lifelong learner, tech lover & software engineer. WSL TERMINAL : docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose.listener.yml up -d --build && docker attach listener Then, let's start an application on the host to handle HTTP message : If it returns "Yes, that ID is free" then you are good to go, with the following: Or, if groupmod is available (which it is on Fedora, Ubuntu, and Debian, but not Alpine unless you sudo apk add shadow), this is safer: Once the group id has been changed, close the terminal window and re-launch your WSL distro. Does the command wsl --set-default-version 2 work? Feel free to try it out. One for WSL and one for "Hyper-v and windows containers" which isn't clear if that is only for windows containers, but it reads sort of like it can do Linux as well. What!??? After walking through the steps in this article, you should now have a working and potentially auto-launched dockerd, shared Docker socket, and conveniently configured docker command. You should see docker when you run the command groups to list group memberships." Get IP address in WSL2 I have based these instructions on those, with some tweaks learned from real world testing. And I use WSL2 because Linux excels at CLI and daemons. Thanks! Some of the code examples above have been placed in scripts in a companion Github repo. $ dpkg -S /usr/sbin/iptables-legacy You should see docker when you run the command groups to list group memberships. Then, select the Images tab inside the Container extension under Container Host. On Debian or Ubuntu, first temporarily set some OS-specific variables: Then, make sure that apt will trust the repo: ID will be either "ubuntu" or "debian", as appropriate, depending on what is in /etc/os-release. Built on Forem the open source software that powers DEV and other inclusive communities. Microsoft is increasingly standardizing on its in-house CBL-Mariner Linux distribution. When I want to stay without Docker Desktop, I need the deamon inside wsl? You may never look back. Thanks for this post, very useful previously. Data wrangler by day. Full-Stack Developer at Elliptic Marketing LLC. WARN[2021-11-06T15:39:10.292307700+05:30] Please consider generating tls certificates with client validation to prevent exposing unauthenticated root access to your network host="tcp://169.254.255.121:2375" Rancher Desktop for windows is a very straightforward application. Docker Desktop does a lot of plumbing in the background for you but running it by yourself isnt hard either. My simple repo can have you up and running. Hey Derek, I believe the \mnt\wsl location is chosen so multiple Linux installations can share the same docker daemon. For more information and to change your decision later, see, # Optionally enable required Windows features if needed, https://download.docker.com/win/static/stable/x86_64/docker-20.10.13.zip, "deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/docker-archive-keyring.gpg] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu, 's/\ -H\ fd:\/\//\ -H\ fd:\/\/\ -H\ tcp:\/\/127.0.0.1:2375/g', mcr.microsoft.com/windows/nanoserver:1809.