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David Karlsson
David Karlsson

Reputation: 9686

Brew install docker does not include docker engine?

Trying to setup docker from brew, however the engine does not seem to be included in any of the any of the official formulas.

brew install docker-machine docker-compose

So these only installs the clients? Is there no keg with the engine/daemon?

Upvotes: 287

Views: 309216

Answers (8)

BMC
BMC

Reputation: 314

OrbStack provides an unmodified Docker engine, and thus Docker CLI. I've been using it on my M2 Pro successfully.


% docker version
Client:
 Version:           24.0.6
 API version:       1.43
 Go version:        go1.20.7
 Git commit:        ed223bc
 Built:             Mon Sep  4 12:28:49 2023
 OS/Arch:           darwin/arm64
 Context:           orbstack

Server: Docker Engine - Community
 Engine:
  Version:          24.0.6
  API version:      1.43 (minimum version 1.12)
  Go version:       go1.20.7
  Git commit:       1a79695
  Built:            Mon Sep  4 12:31:30 2023
  OS/Arch:          linux/arm64
  Experimental:     false
 containerd:
  Version:          v1.7.6
  GitCommit:        091922f03c2762540fd057fba91260237ff86acb
 runc:
  Version:          1.1.9
  GitCommit:        82f18fe0e44a59034f3e1f45e475fa5636e539aa
 docker-init:
  Version:          0.19.0
  GitCommit:        de40ad0

Upvotes: 1

Mitar
Mitar

Reputation: 6980

There is now alternative to Docker Desktop for Mac: colima

If you have Homebrew installed, you can install it using:

brew install colima docker
colima start

docker installs Docker client, while colima provides the daemon.

Upvotes: 12

Pavindu
Pavindu

Reputation: 3112

Docker Desktop for Mac is not a suitable choice for enterprise docker users as it requires a paid license to use. Rancher Desktop is a viable open-source alternative for Docker Desktop for all three major OS.

Since this question is specifically targeted at Mac OS users, I have added the steps to make it work on Mac OS.

  1. First install Docker using homebrew. brew install docker

  2. Install Rancher Desktop.

  3. In Kubernates Settings, change container runtime to dockerd.

Profit !

UPDATE: There's another open-source container runtime in the scene, named Colima (https://github.com/abiosoft/colima).

Upvotes: 17

giraffesyo
giraffesyo

Reputation: 5342

Docker desktop will not be installed if you run brew install docker. If you've already installed it this way, first uninstall with brew uninstall docker.

To install Docker Desktop, run:

brew install homebrew/cask/docker

Launch docker from your /Applications folder once and enter your password, then you can run commands like docker --version to verify the CLI is working.

Upvotes: 13

Susam Pal
Susam Pal

Reputation: 34164

The following steps work fine on macOS Sierra 10.12.4. Note that after brew installs Docker, the docker command (symbolic link) is not available at /usr/local/bin. Running the Docker app for the first time creates this symbolic link. See the detailed steps below.

  1. Install Docker.

    brew install --cask docker

  2. Launch Docker.

    • Press ⌘ + Space to bring up Spotlight Search and enter Docker to launch Docker.
    • In the Docker needs privileged access dialog box, click OK.
    • Enter password and click OK.

    When Docker is launched in this manner, a Docker whale icon appears in the status menu. As soon as the whale icon appears, the symbolic links for docker, docker-compose, docker-credential-osxkeychain and docker-machine are created in /usr/local/bin.

    $ ls -l /usr/local/bin/docker*
lrwxr-xr-x  1 susam  domain Users  67 Apr 12 14:14 /usr/local/bin/docker -> /Users/susam/Library/Group Containers/group.com.docker/bin/docker
lrwxr-xr-x  1 susam  domain Users  75 Apr 12 14:14 /usr/local/bin/docker-compose -> /Users/susam/Library/Group Containers/group.com.docker/bin/docker-compose
lrwxr-xr-x  1 susam  domain Users  90 Apr 12 14:14 /usr/local/bin/docker-credential-osxkeychain -> /Users/susam/Library/Group Containers/group.com.docker/bin/docker-credential-osxkeychain
lrwxr-xr-x  1 susam  domain Users  75 Apr 12 14:14 /usr/local/bin/docker-machine -> /Users/susam/Library/Group Containers/group.com.docker/bin/docker-machine

  3. Click on the docker whale icon in the status menu and wait for it to show Docker is running.

    enter image description here enter image description here

  1. Test that docker works fine.

    $ docker run hello-world
Unable to find image 'hello-world:latest' locally
latest: Pulling from library/hello-world
78445dd45222: Pull complete
Digest: sha256:c5515758d4c5e1e838e9cd307f6c6a0d620b5e07e6f927b07d05f6d12a1ac8d7
Status: Downloaded newer image for hello-world:latest

Hello from Docker!
This message shows that your installation appears to be working correctly.

To generate this message, Docker took the following steps:
 1. The Docker client contacted the Docker daemon.
 2. The Docker daemon pulled the "hello-world" image from the Docker Hub.
 3. The Docker daemon created a new container from that image which runs the
    executable that produces the output you are currently reading.
 4. The Docker daemon streamed that output to the Docker client, which sent it
    to your terminal.

To try something more ambitious, you can run an Ubuntu container with:
 $ docker run -it ubuntu bash

Share images, automate workflows, and more with a free Docker ID:
 https://cloud.docker.com/

For more examples and ideas, visit:
 https://docs.docker.com/engine/userguide/

$ docker version
Client:
 Version:      17.03.1-ce
 API version:  1.27
 Go version:   go1.7.5
 Git commit:   c6d412e
 Built:        Tue Mar 28 00:40:02 2017
 OS/Arch:      darwin/amd64

Server:
 Version:      17.03.1-ce
 API version:  1.27 (minimum version 1.12)
 Go version:   go1.7.5
 Git commit:   c6d412e
 Built:        Fri Mar 24 00:00:50 2017
 OS/Arch:      linux/amd64
 Experimental: true

Upvotes: 564

wisbucky
wisbucky

Reputation: 37797

To install Docker for Mac with homebrew:

brew install homebrew/cask/docker

To install the command line completion:

brew install bash-completion
brew install docker-completion
brew install docker-compose-completion
brew install docker-machine-completion

Upvotes: 48

Zhang Buzz
Zhang Buzz

Reputation: 11028

For reinstall docker, you should run:

brew reinstall homebrew/cask/docker

Upvotes: 2

nwinkler
nwinkler

Reputation: 54427

Please try running

brew install docker

This will install the Docker engine, which will require Docker-Machine (+ VirtualBox) to run on the Mac.

If you want to install the newer Docker for Mac, which does not require virtualbox, you can install that through Homebrew's Cask:

brew install --cask docker 
open /Applications/Docker.app

Upvotes: 340

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