Is there a way to go into the docker host?

Docker Desktop for Mac
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I would like to login / ssh to the host that is running the docker daemon.

Do I have a tool similar to docker-machine ssh?

2

To access the VM use,

screen
/Users/…/Library/Containers/com.docker.docker/Data/com.docker.driver.amd64-linux/tty

‘…’ is your user-id.

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You can make that
${HOME}/Library/Containers/com.docker.docker/Data/com.docker.driver.amd64-linux/tty

Ready to be copy-pasted by anyone :wink:

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This works, but what are the login credentials for the moby vm?

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User: root
Password:

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Yep, that works. Thanks Alex!

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When I do this, I just get a hung terminal that won’t accept any input. Any ideas?

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The issue was that I was already in tmux and was trying to also use screen which was causing all kinds of issues. Sorry for the noise.

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I want to run a script inside the docker host. So I’m looking for an ssh equivalent rather than screen.
Any suggestions?

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When I try to execute:

${HOME}/Library/Containers/com.docker.docker/Data/com.docker.driver.amd64-linux/tty

it returns: Permission denied

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you forgot to add screen to the beginning of the path to a tty, it’s not a command.

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