my Docker Desktop app on Windows 10 is not properly working. I got the following message “Starting the docker engine…” and the application is still stuck on this screen.
I’ve already installed the WSL version 2.
It’s possible to develop a SpringBoot project without using Docker Desktop ?
Can the file compose.yml file be ignored ?
How can I skip the use of Docker Desktop and connect directly SpringBoot application with MongoDB Compass ?
Please help me cause I’m stuck on a project due to this error.
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Please do not add the same post to random topics, as it makes the volunter helpers read more without proviiding any benefit to you or them. The same is true for adding URGENT to a post: every post is urgent for the person that posts it.
Your post has no deatails that allow to understand what the exact problem is, or what you tried or any sort of logs.
The information you shared so far does not allow to give a good answer to any of your question, other than it depends on your maven/gradle config, no idea, no idea.
I don’t agree with you. The error message is very clear: "Starting the docker engine…”.
Moreover there are technical questions. If you’re not able to answer, you can’t say it’s not clear.
Your error message is like saying the car doesn’t start when I turn the key (or press the starter button). As the driver you would provide more details like the motor starts, but chokes right away, or it makes odd noises comming from x, or indicator symbol y iis lighting up…
So yes, the error message never was unclear, but the curcumstances are.
Docker Desktop is almost never a requirement, it just provides features that you either want or not. So yes, it is possible, but on Windows, you always have to run a virtual machine for Linux containers, so if you don’t have Docker DEsktop that runs the VM for you, you need to create a VM manually and either configure remote docker API connection, use SSH to log in to the VM and work from command line, use an IDE on the host like vscode or jetbrains IDEs (less ideal for that) that can conect to remote machines or create a Desktop VM and run the IDE and containers in that.
What compose.yml? Why do you want to ignore it? If you don’t need it, you can ignore it, but we don’t know where you found the compose file and what you want to do. The compsoe file just describes how you start one or more containers and their requirements like volumes and network. If it is there to create the containers that you need, you will not want to ignore it.
I am not a Java developer, but why would Springboot connect to a desktop application? Do you mean connecting to a MongoDB database which you could also read from MongoDB Compass? I don’t see how Docker Desktop is relevant then. It is an aplication connecting to a database.
Common issue which I could never help with. The error message is general, doesn’t indicate exactly what happened, so you probbaly found other forum posts where we recommended checking the docker desktop logs command output or run a diagnostrics and share it with the developers as described here: Troubleshoot Docker Desktop | Docker Docs
I did my best, but indeed, there is not enough information to give a much beter answer. Please, try to answer the few questions I wrote above.