Running docker as 'sudo docker'

Docker Desktop
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I moved from boot2docker to Docker for Mac and my scripts have started to fail.
In boot2docker, I had my DOCKER_HOST set and sudo docker commands worked like a charm.

With the Docker for Mac, I am not able to do the same. How do I query the daemon IP? How to disable TLS in docker for mac?
When I run docker daemon, it shows that I need to run dockerd instead.

Expected behavior

sudo docker commands must have worked

Actual behavior

Information

  • the output of:
    • Moby Menu > Diagnose & Feedback on OSX
  • a reproducible case if this is a bug, Dockerfiles FTW
  • page URL if this is a docs issue or the name of a man page
  • host distribution and version ( OSX 10.10.x, OSX 10.11.x, Windows, etc )

Steps to reproduce the behavior

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Docker for Mac runs as your regular OS X user. You do not need to use sudo and you do not need to set DOCKER_HOST. In fact, you must unset DOCKER_HOST for Docker for Mac to function correctly.

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Thank you, that worked but I had to make a lot of changes to all the scripts that had ‘sudo’ in them.