Docker compatibility on macOS doesn't work anymore

[ThomasVitale]

Bug description

Before upgrading to newer versions of Docker Desktop and Podman Desktop, the Docker compatibility layer on my MacBook was working correctly (macOS Ventura on M1). I'm currently using Docker Desktop 4.19.0 and Podman Desktop 1.0.1, and I can't run Docker commands anymore.

From what I understood, recent versions of Docker Desktop moved the default socket location from /var/run/docker.sock to /Users/<username>/.docker/run/docker.sock, and a link exists from the first to the second.

The result is that whenever I type Docker commands to interact with Podman transparently (e.g. docker ps), the command fails with the following error because Podman Desktop knows how to intercept the first socket location and not the second one.

Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix:///Users/<user>/.docker/run/docker.sock. Is the docker daemon running?

I found a solution for Linux in #2388 (comment), but I didn't find a way to make it work on macOS. Do you have any suggestion?

Operating system

macOS Ventura 13.3.1 (M1)

Version

1.0.x

Steps to reproduce

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Relevant log output

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Additional context

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[benoitf]

hello, for now you can switch the docker context to use the global location

docker context use default (or select the /var/run/docker.sock from docker context ls)

you could comment the issue on Podman as well containers/podman#16548 as it's still not binding the local socket

[ThomasVitale]

@benoitf thank you so much for your reply. Changing the Docker context worked.

[vyasgun]

/assign

[benoitf]

I think podman machine, should register a docker context 'podman' and switch to this context if the current context is not reachable

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[jeffmaury]

PR attached