WSL and Docker for Windows: "Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at tcp://localhost:2375. Is the docker daemon running?"

simon1985 · May 15, 2020, 5:24pm

I did every steps by the official tutorials, then I met this issue as well, I tried to remove the variable `echo DOCKER_HOST=tcp://localhost:2375` from my `~/.zshrc`, and then restarted the terminal, after that it worked properly with command `docker version` on Ubuntu.

# WSL2 Ubuntu
$ docker version
Client: Docker Engine - Community
 Version:           19.03.8
 API version:       1.40
 Go version:        go1.12.17
 Git commit:        afacb8b7f0
 Built:             Wed Mar 11 01:25:46 2020
 OS/Arch:           linux/amd64
 Experimental:      false

Server: Docker Engine - Community
 Engine:
  Version:          19.03.8
  API version:      1.40 (minimum version 1.12)
  Go version:       go1.12.17
  Git commit:       afacb8b
  Built:            Wed Mar 11 01:29:16 2020
  OS/Arch:          linux/amd64
  Experimental:     false
 containerd:
  Version:          v1.2.13
  GitCommit:        7ad184331fa3e55e52b890ea95e65ba581ae3429
 runc:
  Version:          1.0.0-rc10
  GitCommit:        dc9208a3303feef5b3839f4323d9beb36df0a9dd
 docker-init:
  Version:          0.18.0
  GitCommit:        fec3683

My Docker Desktop settings as below:

WSL and Docker for Windows: "Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at tcp://localhost:2375. Is the docker daemon running?"

I did every steps by the official tutorials, then I met this issue as well, I tried to remove the variable echo DOCKER_HOST=tcp://localhost:2375 from my ~/.zshrc, and then restarted the terminal, after that it worked properly with command docker version on Ubuntu.

I did every steps by the official tutorials, then I met this issue as well, I tried to remove the variable `echo DOCKER_HOST=tcp://localhost:2375` from my `~/.zshrc`, and then restarted the terminal, after that it worked properly with command `docker version` on Ubuntu.