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LoganMzz
LoganMzz

Reputation: 1619

How to download Docker CLI only for Windows 7

I'm using Windows 7 Pro and have existing shared Docker engine running on a Linux. I would like to use my workstation (with development environment) to access shared Docker engine.

Does someone know how to retrieve Docker client only for Windows 7 ? I have no admin privilege, so I can't install Docker Toolbox.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 7953

Answers (3)

Daniel Habenicht
Daniel Habenicht

Reputation: 2243

The official Downloads have finally been published:

From: https://github.com/docker/cli/issues/2281#issuecomment-947699400

Upvotes: 1

KeKru
KeKru

Reputation: 464

Older Clients can be found here https://download.docker.com/win/static/stable/x86_64/
And here a some newer Builds by Stefan Scherer (Docker employee) https://github.com/StefanScherer/docker-cli-builder.

Just download docker.exe and add it to your windows path variable.
Then set your DOCKER_HOST variable to define against which Docker daemon you want to speak.

Upvotes: 3

Software Engineer
Software Engineer

Reputation: 16140

Although docker provides a REST-like API, there aren't many clients for it. A quick google turned up one on github, but ymmv. Even if you did find one, you're likely to run into the same problems involved in running docker-ce locally anyway.

There are a handful of gui clients that you could run on that engine and access with a browser, but if you are specifically after a cli you're SOL with this.

If you have an ssh client (git bash, or putty, or something), and you can arrange to run a bastion container on the engine, then you could run a container to ssh into and use that as if it's your local machine. You'd still have to scp resources onto it, but you'll eventually have to solve that problem anyway. Something like:

sudo docker container run --interactive --tty -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock image

Where 'image' is a linux image with an ssh server and appropriate keys, git, and docker installed. You could mount a local volume for persistence, or you could just keep everything in git.

Upvotes: 0

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