Skip to content

add note about DOCKER_HOST for kn quickstart kind #6643

New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Open
psschwei wants to merge 1 commit into
base: main
Choose a base branch
from
+7 −0
Open

add note about DOCKER_HOST for kn quickstart kind #6643

Changes from all commits
Commits
Show all changes
1 commit
Select commit
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension
Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
7 changes: 7 additions & 0 deletions docs/snippets/quickstart-install.md
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -88,6 +88,13 @@ To get a local deployment of Knative, run the `quickstart` plugin:
netstat -tnlp | grep 80
```

!!! note
Quickstart connects to the Docker daemon at `/var/run/docker.sock` and does not honor the socket selected by your current `docker context` (for example, when using Colima, Rancher Desktop, or Lima). If you see an error like `Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix:///var/run/docker.sock`, set the `DOCKER_HOST` environment variable to your active socket before running the command. For example:
```bash
export DOCKER_HOST=unix://$HOME/.lima/docker/sock/docker.sock
```
You can find the endpoint for your active context by running `docker context ls`.

1. After the plugin is finished, verify you have a cluster called `knative`:

```bash
Expand Down
Loading