Tutorial 27 - Selenium 4 Grid With Docker: How to Resolve errors post installing Docker on Windows
Open the command prompt and execute ‘where docker’ command. This would display the path of docker.exe
cd to bin directory and execute ‘docker’ command. You might see the error as shown below
Change directory to C:\Users\DELL\.docker\machine\certs as shown below (in your machine the path might be different)
Notice the certificates in the above folder location.
Copy this path and create new environment variable DOCKER_CERT_PATH and paste the above path as its value
Click Ok
Click OK
Click OK to close the environment variables window.
Open command prompt, type ‘docker’ command. Now we don’t see the certificates related error, see below
Execute ‘docker version’ command. You might see another error as shown below
You might get this error if you would have installed ‘docker toolbox’ in the past (in Windows10 home machine). The reason being, ‘docker toolbox’ is now deprecated for windows10 home machine.
To resolve this error, remove below 4 entries from environment variables
Once removed, open a new command window and execute ‘docker version’ command. See below
Now we are seeing client and server details. Docker client talks to docker server for executing various tasks.
Note: If you still don’t see the above details, restart your machine and retry
Other problems you might face during docker setup on Windows and their probable solutions
If you try to execute ‘docker version’ command immediately after restarting your computer. You might get the below error. The reason being docker engine hasn’t yet started
To resolve this error, click docker desktop icon to start docker, below notification should be seen in the computer’s tray
Wait for few minutes till the time docker image gets stabilized
Open a new command prompt and execute ‘docker version’. You should now see client and server
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You can also restart docker by right clicking the docker icon >restart docker
Or search for ‘Services’ as shown below
Select below service and click restart
Open a new command prompt and execute docker info command (gives detailed info about images and containers)
Execute docker --help command that shows the list of commands available for docker
If these commands are working fine, than it means docker is up and running in your windows OS.
Thank you for reading!!!
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