- #Docker desktop linux how to#
- #Docker desktop linux update#
- #Docker desktop linux windows 10#
- #Docker desktop linux free#
Since Docker is in a situation where docker itself is just not what most of us really think about. There are likely other examples they have tried but likely just didn't notice. I think the reaction is perfectly valid given the companies track record.
#Docker desktop linux free#
Now they are charging for something that was once free without really explaining any benefits? But they added that artificial limitation after release. I was perfectly happy with what it was currently doing and had no desire to update.
#Docker desktop linux update#
Which spawned companies like AWS to announce their own free alternative/mirror.Īt some point with in the last few months they made it so without paying I was forced to update docker desktop or constantly have to click snooze.
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Last year (?) they started limiting pulls from docker hub unless you paid up. They tried to go the support route like RedHat and others, but who needed just Docker support? Especially when there orchestration layer was basically DOA with k8s available. If docker desktop was originally subscription based or they said that they wanted to make it subscription based later than the reaction would be very different.īut Docker as a company has failed multiple times now to attempt to make money and this feels like a hostage situation by taking away a tool that many now rely on. The preferred form of configuration for the Docker daemon or service seems to be using the configuration file daemon.My problem is less that it is happening but how we got here.Using Docker Desktop you need to explicitly switch to the particular platform (Windows/Linux) you want to interact/work with off of the systray icon.ConclusionsĮventually I was able to track down where everything was located.
#Docker desktop linux windows 10#
This was all a bit tricky in that you won’t find these images in a host Windows 10 search. You can switch back to Linux containers off the systray in the same way we switched over to the Windows containers… Switching to Linux containersĪfter a better understanding of how Docker was interacting with WSL and figuring that WSL was likely hiding much of it’s Linux file data internally somewhere I opened a WSL shell and started exploring… Location of docker image data under WSL Linux container imagesĪfter figuring my confusion on the Windows side I wanted to switch back to Linux containers and see if I could track down where the Docker images were being downloaded to. Now when you go into Settings still no ADVANCED section but… under Docker Engine we can see the daemon.json content… Setting the Docker data-root pathĬhanges done here within the Docker settings do get stored in the daemon.json file. To switch over to the ability to interact with Windows containers you have to explicitly perform that switch off the Docker Desktop systray icon… Switching to Windows containers I’m not sure if WSL is always chosen as the preferred container platform but it was for me. In my case because I already had WSL installed that became the default container platform. Windows Subsystem for Linux ( WSL) is a compatibility layer for running Linux binary executables (in ELF format) natively on Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019. I finally tracked the source of my confusion to not understanding how Docker Desktop was dealing with WSL. In my case this file didn’t exist but as outlined from the documentation above it’s fine to create it.Īfter creating a daemon.json file I restarted the docker service and… still no change in image storage location. Microsoft has a great overview of this process in their documentation here. I found several articles suggesting setting up a file daemon.json. Yes there is! The storage location is referenced as data-root.Īfter adding data-root entry in the JSON block which can be done directly in the Docker Engine text form I ran a restart which… failed! Something further was needed. JSON configuration data so perhaps there is a setting for setting the location of Docker image data. This was strange! Why couldn’t I see these settings? I switched over to the Docker Engine section… Docker Engine config settings Upon opening settings I found no such value.
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According to Windows Docker documentation there should be an ADVANCED item under Resources in the settings. I initially explored the Docker desktop settings looking for where I could set a path for data storage. I have a 6TB drive I like to storage large files on and the standard system “C” drive was not going to cut it.
#Docker desktop linux how to#
Specifically I was curious to see where Docker stores it’s images and how to modify that storage location. While starting to explore Docker Desktop on Windows I found the documentation a bit confusing in some areas.