Is it possible to install only the docker cli and not the daemon

Question

I want to have docker CLI to connect to remote daemon but do I need to install the whole engine including daemon on the local machine?

Answer 1

On Windows, you can install the CLI by itself using chocolatey package manager.

Once you have chocolatey loaded you can run this from an admin command prompt:

choco install /y docker-cli

This seems to be much more up-to-date than the Windows link provided by Aaron, for some reason. (v19 instead of v17, as of Jan 2020)