docs: add DOCKER_MCP_IN_CONTAINER bypass information#237
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Thank you @stellarshenson. I think we're also adding a new environment variable for use with Docker CE environment variables. Let me check. |
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Super, this is one of the tools that we have included in our data science workbench - https://github.com/stellarshenson/stellars-jupyterlab-ds |
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I suppose this issue I ran into today when running Docker CE is related: Is there a way that we can infer this without having to explicitly set the env var? |
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Summary
DOCKER_MCP_IN_CONTAINER=1environment variable bypassChanges
Context
Users running Docker Desktop in WSL2 or containerized environments may encounter
"Docker Desktop is not running" errors even when the Docker daemon is active. This
occurs because the Desktop backend API sockets (
~/.docker/desktop/backend.sock)are not available in these environments.
The
DOCKER_MCP_IN_CONTAINER=1environment variable allows users to bypass theDesktop feature flag checks (see
cmd/docker-mcp/commands/root.go:48), enablingthe MCP Gateway to work in these scenarios.