Hello, this may not be related to flyte but I will ask the question anyway. I tried to start a demo using

flytectl demo start

But I encountered the following error:

Error: Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix:///var/run/docker.sock. Is the docker daemon running?

My docker engine is running tho and I can build images if I want to. Anyone has experienced this before?

Is your terminal a WSL in windows?

Nope I have m1 macOs

Could you try

docker run hello-world

?

yup just did. it worked.

Hello from Docker!

This message shows that your installation appears to be working correctly.

Do you usually execute the docker command using

sudo

by any chance?

Nope. I dont normally use

sudo

when when executing the docker command.

What if you run

DOCKER_HOST="unix:///var/run/docker.sock" docker run hello-world

?

If you’re using docker desktop on MacOS, and given that it works when you run it manually, perhaps your docker.sock is located at another path that is not

/var/run/docker.sock

. Assuming docker desktop, what version are you using? I’m using docker desktop 4.12 on MacOS, which symlinks by default the

/var/run/docker.sock

path to your actual docker.sock, for example mine looks like this:

cictor@Victors-MacBook-Pro % ls -la /var/run/docker.sock
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  daemon  37 May 29 12:51 /var/run/docker.sock -> /Users/cictor/.docker/run/docker.sock

Version 4.13.0 of docker desktop does not create this symlink anymore: https://docs.docker.com/desktop/release-notes/

• By default Docker will not create the /var/run/docker.sock symlink on the host and use the docker-desktop CLI context instead.

Version 4.13.1 added it back:

• Added back the

/var/run/docker.sock

symlink on Mac by default, to increase compatibility with tooling like

tilt

and

docker-py

. Fixes docker/for-mac#6529.

So if you’re using exactly version 4.13.0, that would be a problem. Please check

Yup and that was exactly the problem. The docker.sock is located in another path. I did symlink manually and it worked now. Thank you so much everyone for helping. 🔥