Install Docker and Kubernetes on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). No Docker Desktop Required!

[@Dotphil01]

Great video. After following your steps on installing docker, I tried running the sudo docker ps -a command but kept getting an error message like this "Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix:///var/run/docker.sock. Is the docker daemon running?". How do I resolve this?

[@BlaizeTech]

Set your DOCKER_HOST environment variable to the IP address of your WSL2 instance. You can get this by typing ifconfig.

[@Hellbending]

Scoop > chocolatey 😉

[@BlaizeTech]

I'm old school. 😂😂

[@Hellbending]

@@BlaizeTech Hey… hey now - Git’s pretty old school? 😂😂

[@BlaizeTech]

@@Hellbending Ahh Yeah!!!

[@rcubickmprt]

hai, great video. can my node in other vm join as worker to kubernetes in wsl with these settings?

[@BlaizeTech]

It's possible. This is just using MiroK8S, which allows you to create clusters.

[@rcubickmprt]

@@BlaizeTech Thank you for the quick response. I'm eager to follow the steps outlined for setting up Kubernetes on an on-premise Windows server as the master. I have an additional server that I'd like to join as a node to the master, Is it possible?

[@BlaizeTech]

@@rcubickmprtI don't think windows as a master is going to work. I've never seen such a setup, and I wouldn't recommend it even if it does work. Using Windows worker nodes is fine for Windows containers. If it has to be on Windows, WSL is your tool, although the WSL networking is not great. I would suggest using Linux as much as possible, and use Windows when necessary if at all.

[@rcubickmprt]

@@BlaizeTech Unfortunately, it has to be on Windows due to compatibility issues with other apps. By the way, I have the following devices: - 1 unit Windows Server - 2 unit Synology NAS In your opinion, if I have to use Kubernetes, where should I configure the master? and then Which is better, configuring it on WSL or using a VM and installing a Linux distribution?

[@BlaizeTech]

@@rcubickmprtI'd use a VM if you can. WSL is really more of dev tool, and the IO on the file system is slow. I prefer Ubuntu for MicroK8S because it's easy to install for small uses. You may wan to check out Rancher OS, too. It's more of a turnkey solution for Kubernetes.

[@whiteking80]

Great video. Imfollowing this tutoril step by step. However I notice following command which to open docker .service found none searching for the port. The latter script service has bit different than the the one you're demonstrating. May i know the alternative to find the port ? sudo nano /lib/systemd/system/docker.service

[@whiteking80]

sudo ss -tln | grep ':2375' found no response

[@whiteking80]

owh i just noticed you actually added and modify the script. Thanks 4 your video. Appreciate it.!

[@BlaizeTech]

@@whiteking80 Glad you found the solution.

[@Marhaenism1930]

ah i thought was only me had same issue like that, because we werent using same OS as vid. glad it was solved

[@rochesterbrad]

How do we deal with proxy server in way of doctor. Where do we add a cert pem file?

[@BlaizeTech]

Here's how to handle this with the docker daemon. docs.docker.com/config/daemon/proxy/

[@ghostshell22-m4z]

sudo systemctl daemon-reload System has not been booted with systemd as init system (PID 1). Can't operate. Failed to connect to bus: Host is down

[@BlaizeTech]

This happens because of older versions of WSL or Ubuntu. Make sure you've upgraded your WSL install (wsl --udpdate) and use a more current version of Ubuntu.