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I can't use the Docker client! - Docker Tutorial
From the course: Learning Docker
I can't use the Docker client!
- [Instructor] Here's one more bugbear that you might run into. You hop into your machine in the morning and fire up a terminal to begin doing some stuff with containers. However, upon running docker ps to see what containers you have running, you're asked, rather rudely, is the docker daemon running? "What do you mean is the docker daemon running? It was running yesterday. Who messed with my machine?" You might angrily be thinking. "I have deadlines." (instructor sighing) Take a breath. This one's easy to fix. There are two reasons why you might run into this. The first reason is pretty straightforward. Remember our little whale friend in the system tray or task bar? If you don't see it, then Docker Desktop isn't running. All you need to do is open Docker Desktop again and give it a minute to start. Once you see the whale with its boxes on top of it, then go back into your terminal and rerun the command. It should work as expected, right as rain. A less common reason why this happens…
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