Can you run Docker natively on the new Windows 10 (Ubuntu) bash userspace?

You can use Docker Desktop for Windows as the engine and Docker for Linux as the client in WSL on Ubuntu / Debian on Windows. Connect them via TCP.

Install Docker Desktop for Windows: https://hub.docker.com/editions/community/docker-ce-desktop-windows
If you want to use Windows Containers instead of Linux Containers both type containers can be managed by the Linux docker client in the bash userspace.

Since version 17.03.1-ce-win12 (12058) you must check Expose daemon on tcp://localhost:2375 without TLS to allow the Linux Docker client to continue communicating with the Windows Docker daemon by TCP

Follow these steps:

cd
wget https://download.docker.com/linux/static/stable/`uname -m`/docker-19.03.1.tgz
tar -xzvf docker-*.tgz
cd docker
./docker -H tcp://0.0.0.0:2375 ps

or

env DOCKER_HOST=tcp://0.0.0.0:2375 ./docker ps

To make it permanent:

mkdir ~/bin
mv ~/docker/docker ~/bin

Add the corresponding variables to .bashrc

export DOCKER_HOST=tcp://0.0.0.0:2375
export PATH=$PATH:~/bin

Of course, you can install docker-compose

sudo -i
curl -L https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.24.1/docker-compose-`uname -s`-`uname -m` > /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

Or using python pip

sudo apt-get install python-pip bash-completion
sudo pip install docker-compose

And Bash completion. The best part:

sudo -i
apt-get install bash-completion
curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/docker/docker-ce/master/components/cli/contrib/completion/bash/docker > /etc/bash_completion.d/docker
curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/docker/compose/$(docker-compose version --short)/contrib/completion/bash/docker-compose > /etc/bash_completion.d/docker-compose

I’ve tested it using the 2.1.0.1 (37199) version of Docker Desktop using Hyper-V:

$ docker version
Client: Docker Engine - Community
 Version:           19.03.1
 API version:       1.40
 Go version:        go1.12.5
 Git commit:        74b1e89e8a
 Built:             Thu Jul 25 21:17:37 2019
 OS/Arch:           linux/amd64
 Experimental:      false

Server: Docker Engine - Community
 Engine:
  Version:          19.03.1
  API version:      1.40 (minimum version 1.12)
  Go version:       go1.12.5
  Git commit:       74b1e89
  Built:            Thu Jul 25 21:17:52 2019
  OS/Arch:          linux/amd64
  Experimental:     false
 containerd:
  Version:          v1.2.6
  GitCommit:        894b81a4b802e4eb2a91d1ce216b8817763c29fb
 runc:
  Version:          1.0.0-rc8
  GitCommit:        425e105d5a03fabd737a126ad93d62a9eeede87f
 docker-init:
  Version:          0.18.0
  GitCommit:        fec3683
Look both client and server say **OS/Arch: linux/amd64**

Volumes

Take care when adding volumes. The path C:\dir will be visible as /mnt/c/dir on WSL and as /c/dir/ by docker engine. You can overcome it permanently:

sudo bash -c "echo -e '[automount] \nroot = /'>/etc/wsl.conf"

You must exit and reload WSL after making the change to wsl.conf so that WSL reads in your changes on launch.

UPDATE

from: What’s new for the Command Line in Windows 10 version 1803

Unix Sockets
Unix Sockets weren’t supported on Windows, and now they are! You can also communicate over Unix sockets between Windows and WSL. One of the great things about this is it enables WSL to run the Linux Docker Client to interact with the Docker Daemon running on Windows.

UPDATE

This script and the use of Unix Sockets was included in Pengwin‘s pengwin-setup.

Regards

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