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Shobi
Shobi

Reputation: 11461

How to start docker from command line in mac

I have docker desktop installed in mac. So in order to start docker, I open applications and find docker. Then I can see a docker icon at the topbar. later I can run docker commands from the command line.

My question is how do I start the docker itself from command line?

Googling fetches me results on how to start a container from command line :|

Upvotes: 124

Views: 197869

Answers (5)

murtaza Mustafa
murtaza Mustafa

Reputation: 1

in MacOs - easiest way is to install docker desktop and then starting this will solve the "is daemon running?" problem...

Upvotes: -6

Swaps
Swaps

Reputation: 31

On my Mac I started Docker Desktop via the Launchpad, and looked at the processes running with;

ps -ef | grep -i docker

I could see the app location to be;

/Applications/Docker 2.app

So I amended the above start up command slightly to;

open /Applications/Docker\ 2.app

And to kill all processes I first ran the following to see what the process name was;

pgrep -l Docker
38723 Docker Desktop
38731 Docker Desktop
38732 Docker Desktop
38735 Docker Desktop
38782 Docker Desktop

The passed this to killall;

killall 'Docker Desktop'

Upvotes: 2

I E M Fiddler
I E M Fiddler

Reputation: 39

start the docker desktop itself in macos :

open -a Docker

stop the docker desktop itself in macos :

killall Docker

Upvotes: 3

Kumar Pankaj Dubey
Kumar Pankaj Dubey

Reputation: 2307

You can open Docker Desktop on Mac using:-

open -a Docker

The Mac equivalent to systemctl or service is launchctl. But Docker Desktop is, presumably deliberately, packaged both on Mac and Windows as an application, not a service.

For shutdown, this:-

pkill -SIGHUP -f /Applications/Docker.app 'docker serve'

seems to work about as well as Quitting Docker from the GUI. By which I mean (a) when you restart Docker again it starts up with no complaints and (b) however I quit Docker Desktop, I still have a docker networking daemon left running.

Upvotes: 170

l'L'l
l'L'l

Reputation: 47169

On macOS you'd use launchctl:

It's unclear which service you are actually intending to run, although the equivalent to service or systemctl on Linux is launchctl on macOS (eg. running docker registry with launchd):

Copy the Docker registry plist into place:

plutil -lint registry/recipes/osx/com.docker.registry.plist
cp registry/recipes/osx/com.docker.registry.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents/
chmod 644 ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.docker.registry.plist

Start the Docker registry:

launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.docker.registry.plist

Restart the docker registry service

launchctl stop com.docker.registry
launchctl start com.docker.registry

Unload the docker registry service

launchctl unload ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.docker.registry.plist

↳ Run the Docker Registry under launchd

Upvotes: 9

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