Questions tagged [docker-daemon]
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Why am I getting a "Cannot connect to the Docker daemon" error in WSL2?
Here is my setup:
Windows 10 PRO - build 19041.153 - insider program - slow ring
Ubuntu 18.04LTS subsystem in WSL2 mode
Docker for desktop 2.2.0.4 - enabled WSL2 integration with my Ubuntu subsystem
I am currently forced to use Windows for…

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docker.socket: Failed with result 'service-start-limit-hit' after protecting docker daemon socket
I followed the steps provided in the documentation here to add tls security for docker api. Certificates are located in ~/.docker/ as well as /etc/docker/ssl/ folders. I added override.conf to /etc/systemd/system/docker.service.d/ with…

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How to expose Docker TCP socket on WSL2? (WSL-installed Docker, not Docker Desktop)
I want to connect to Docker TCP socket running in WSL2 via PyCharm. I can't seem to expose the socket, I think possibly because there's limited control of docker-daemon within WSL2 (systemctl)? I can't use Docker Desktop because I need GPU support…

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Fix "Docker daemon failed to start" error after (Mac) OS upgrade
After getting numerous messages saying I should upgrade my OS, I have finally decided to upgrade to macOS Big Sur v11.6.1.
Unfortunately, docker doesn't work anymore.
I'm getting an error:
Fatal Error
Docker daemon failed to…

Andy B.
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What process is the parent process of containerd-shim?
I setup 2 k8s environments with minikube. One with the --container-runtime=docker flag and one with --container-runtime=containerd flag. Here are the differences I see.
When I set container-runtime=docker , these things happen
there is a dockerd…

Hari Sundararajan
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modify docker daemon configuration in Rancher Desktop VM
Is there a way to modify docker daemon configuration in Rancher Desktop VM, e.g. adding insecure registries, etc...?
After such modification, I'd like to restart docker daemon for changes to apply. Is there a way to connect to Rancher Desktop…

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Failed to start docker-daemon: Firewalld: docker zone already exists
I have the following after running firewall-cmd --get-active-zones
public
interfaces: virbr0 docker0 lxcbr0 wlan0
trusted
sources: 172.17.0.0/16 53.0.0.0/8
These are insights I got from failed to start daemon: Error initializing network…

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Does build context size affect the image size?
When I build images with docker build the output contains the context size, e.g.:
Sending build context to Docker daemon 1.315GB
[...]
Successfully built a9ec4d33e12e
Does this size affect the resulting image size? Should I seek to reduce it?

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Docker remote daemon (TCP): Cannot connect to the Docker daemon
I'm trying to connect a docker daemon from a client to a remote host via TCP but I'm getting this error:
docker -H tcp://{{HOST_IP}}:2375 ps
Cannot connect to the Docker daemon. Is 'docker daemon' running on this host?
What could be possible…

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Building a Docker Image with the Spring Boot Gradle Plugin and Colima
I'm trying to create a docker image of a Spring Boot application using the Gradle plugin. I'm using Spring Boot 2.6.4 and Gradle 7.1.1.
I'm on a Mac, and I don't have Docker Desktop installed. Indeed, I run docker using Colima.
The problem is that I…

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Is it possible to use environment variables inside docker daemon configuration file
background:
We are using registry_mirrors & insecure_registries options in docker daemon.json file. We would like to stop setting the location of the mirrors hard-coded.
Question
Is it possible to use env variable inside daemon.json? So instead of…

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Enabling live restore on docker isn't keeping the containers alive
I read the Enable Live Restore, but when I tried it.
ubuntu@ip-10-0-0-230:~$ cat /etc/docker/daemon.json
{
"live-restore": true
}
I started an nginx container in detached mode.
sudo docker run -d …

Ashwani
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Docker Daemon not running on windows 11
I am a beginner into Docker stuff, I am on windows 11 and whenever I try to open docker desktop it doesn't open.
Always this error message shows up, also whenever I try to run docker ps or docker images
or anything related to docker it always shows…

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What is purpose of the switch --containerd in command dockerd?
If I run systemctl cat docker.service to check the unit file of docker.service,
ExecStart=/usr/bin/dockerd -H fd:// --containerd=/run/containerd/containerd.sock can be found in the default unit file of docker.
My question is what is the purpose of…

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Preparation failed: Got permission denied while trying to connect to the Docker daemon socket at unix:///var/run/docker.sock
Trying to transform a project in gitlab to docker image. The gitlab is selfhosted. This is the error I get:
Running with gitlab-runner 13.12.0 (7a6612da)
on test -KnwQXuT
Preparing the "docker" executor
ERROR: Failed to remove network for…

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