How to detect a docker daemon port

By default, the docker daemon will use the unix socket unix:///var/run/docker.sock (you can check this is the case for you by doing a sudo netstat -tunlp and note that there is no docker daemon process listening on any ports). It's recommended to keep this setting for security reasons but it sounds like Riak requires the daemon to be running on a TCP socket.

To start the docker daemon with a TCP socket that anybody can connect to, use the -H option:

sudo docker -H 0.0.0.0:2375 -d &

Warning: This means machines that can talk to the daemon through that TCP socket can get root access to your host machine.

Related docs:

http://basho.com/posts/technical/running-riak-in-docker/

https://docs.docker.com/install/linux/linux-postinstall/#configure-where-the-docker-daemon-listens-for-connections

1. Prepare extra configuration file. Create a file named /etc/systemd/system/docker.service.d/docker.conf. Inside the file docker.conf, paste below content:

[Service]
ExecStart=
ExecStart=/usr/bin/dockerd -H tcp://0.0.0.0:2375 -H unix:///var/run/docker.sock

Note that if there is no directory like docker.service.d or a file named docker.conf then you should create it.

2. Restart Docker. After saving this file, reload the configuration by systemctl daemon-reload and restart Docker by systemctl restart docker.service.

3. Check your Docker daemon. After restarting docker service, you can see the port in the output of systemctl status docker.service like /usr/bin/dockerd -H tcp://0.0.0.0:2375 -H unix:///var/run/docker.sock.

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