I have been successful in running docker from a WSL (debian) by turning on “Expose daemon on tcp://localhost:2375 without TLS” in the settings. However, this has a security warning underneath it and I do not want to propagate this usage to downstream users.
Has anyone been successful in connecting a WSL distribution to the Windows Docker daemon with-out this checkbox? Also note that I want to primarily run Linux containers.
I guess the answer is “yes” since I could follow https://raesene.github.io/blog/2018/03/29/WSL-And-Docker/ but I concur with this writer that these directions do not work unless I’m using Windows containers. I understand that I probably can use --platform=linux if I enable experimental features. But that leaves me with inconveniences for the platform switch and required experimental – which also isn’t great for downstream users.
See also https ://docs.docker.com/engine/security/https/ and https ://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowscontainers/management/manage_remotehost . The latter does not inspire confidence as it points to a 3rd party dockertls (?) and seems to be incomplete.