Is Docker running within WSL or connecting back to Windows?

Question

After successfully installing Docker in WSL, if I run standard Docker commands, I get connection errors. Runing with sudo or not yields the same result in all examples.

Answer 1

This is a workaround which is to use Docker on windows in WSL instead.

Just add the following to your WSL .bashrc file.

export PATH="$HOME/bin:$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"
export PATH="$PATH:/mnt/c/Program\ Files/Docker/Docker/resources/bin"
alias docker=docker.exe
alias docker-compose=docker-compose.exe

Reference: https://blog.jayway.com/2017/04/19/running-docker-on-bash-on-windows/