Install Docker in WSL 2 without Docker Desktop

It only takes a few lines of shell scripting and there's Kubernetes support too.

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0:00 -- Intro
0:22 -- Everything runs smoothly with this set up
0:53 -- Why I ended up switching away from Docker Desktop
3:18 -- Switching away has nothing to do with Docker Desktop license costs
3:56 -- Why you might want to continue using Docker desktop
6:01 -- You can still run a Kubernetes cluster locally if you want
7:09 -- Following the Docker Linux install guides
8:25 -- Adding your WSL 2 user to the Docker group to run Docker without sudo
9:44 -- Install Docker Compose v2 with the Docker plugin
10:44 -- Now we need to run the Docker service within WSL 2
11:19 -- A tiny bit of shell scripting to ensure Docker is started
15:43 -- How are you running Docker within WSL 2?

[NickJanetakis]

If you're using Ubuntu 22.04 or Debian 10 / 11 you'll need to make 1 small change from the video. You'll need to run `sudo update-alternatives --config iptables` and choose option (1) from the prompt to install the legacy version of iptables. Once that's installed everything else works 100% the same and Docker will start successfully.

[leTRodz]

Thank you so much! I was struggling with Docker Desktop. This solution worked wonders!

[thatokhunou]

Very helpful, thanks mate! I've been struggling to get docker to work without docker-desktop on linux

[nnutipa]

Thanks for the video! I will definitely install docker derectly into WSL2, because I have never used GUI, k8s feature

[cacanantes]

That helped a lot. Thanks for sharing.

[wuziq]

super clear and you addressed all doubts. came here cuz apparently docker-desktop is causing vmmem to max out memory usage. thanks!

[vpsvbeb]

Thanks much dood. it's working perfectly.

[aytraf]

Hey Nick, thanks for the tutorial! systemd support in now available on WSL.

[JaviHabana]

Thanks for the video men, is very usefull

[golvino]

Thanks for taking the time to explain the ins and outs of this. I did not even know we had a choice. I just re-installed my 3 year old 9570 and chose to stay away from DDesktop. Volumes really seem faster.
One small thing I will miss is the neat log/terminal pane in the DDesktop container GUI. But Docker Desktop feels like a nuclear powerplant in terms of footprint and I can probably easily add some aliases to my .bashrc to the same effect.

On a side note: you mention that your workstation has 16G of RAM. I do not know the type of workflows that you're running, but I have a 32G and 64G machine and the 32G machine sometimes runs a bit short on memory (WSL2 eats memory like pandas on a bamboo gobbling spree) .

[EbonySeraphim]

Holy crap slowing this video down to .75x makes the dialog seem pretty much normal speed.

[gc-ybfr]

Great video! I studying up on Docker Swarm and was wondering if it is possible to run multiple instances of docker on the same machine to simulate a swarm environment. Is it possible to extend what you describe to run the service multiple times?

[saivinherkar]

Thanks for the video.
I did all the steps from video and document. But still my docker daemon is not running. I added script in .profile folder also.
Any help would be really appreciated.
Thanks!

[brianholland]

This is amazing. One follow-up question after I've got it running now.

I have a 100Gb SSD C: drive that's like 95% full and an 800 Gb spinning drive that's only like 10% full. How can I store all these images on my spinning drive that still has tons of room on it?? 🙏

[sanlues]

Is the docker on wsl free to use if i am working in a company that doesnt fit in free usage policy for docker desktop

[caliberx]

Can't broadcast in Lan network

Whenever we run docker container (docker desktop on windows or docker cli on linux) using broadcast IP 0.0.0.0 & bind port, it gets accessible throughout the local network

But in this method it does not
Do we have a solution to that

[ryanbarnds]

great video. thank, you. Not sure if i accidently hit the 1.5x speed button or you ingested 1.5 buttons of speed.

[zcjgliq]

Thanks for your tutorial. Could you tell me more about how to connect to the installed docker from another computer (they are all in the same network). I tried but it seem I can only access my app using "localhost" not the "ip" of the computer I installed wsl

[nataliamarquesvieira]

Hi, Nick! In Docker Desktop we can change preferences to mount specific folders in File Sharing. How can I change this preferences using Docker in WSL?

[deyeaus]

Have you ever run into an issue where once docker starts you can't access the net from your wsl2 instance? For example you can start a ping and let it run, start docker (in a different terminal window) and a few seconds later the ping will stall, nslookup etc will also fail for anything outside of wsl2. It's very annoying, had been working fine for months prior to this happening. I suspect something in an update/upgrade modified or does not like my config. Using win 11/ Ubuntu 22.04 with systemd. It was auto starting but disabled it to troubleshoot the issue.