docker

Overview

The Docker driver allows you to install Kubernetes into an existing Docker install. On Linux, this does not require virtualization to be enabled.

Start a cluster using the docker driver:

minikube start --driver=docker

To make docker the default driver:

minikube config set driver docker

Start a cluster using the rootless docker driver:

dockerd-rootless-setuptool.sh install -f
docker context use rootless
minikube start --driver=docker --container-runtime=containerd

The --container-runtime flag must be currently set to “containerd”.

The restrictions of rootless kind apply to minikube with rootless docker as well.

The following Docker runtime security options are currently unsupported and will not work with the Docker driver (see #9607):
- userns-remap
On macOS, containers might get hung and require a restart of Docker for Desktop. See docker/for-mac#1835
The ingress, and ingress-dns addons are currently only supported on Linux. See #7332
On WSL2 (experimental - see #5392), you may need to run:

sudo mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd && sudo mount -t cgroup -o none,name=systemd cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd.

On Windows, make sure Docker Desktop’s container type setting is Linux and not windows. see docker docs on switching container type. You can verify your Docker container type by running:
```
docker info --format '{{.OSType}}'
```

On Linux, if you want to run MySQL pod, you need to disable AppArmor for mysql profile

If your docker has AppArmor enabled, running mysql in privileged mode with docker driver will have the issue #7401. There is a workaround - see moby/moby#7512.