Docker

Installation

Switch to root for installation:

$ su - root

Open the system configuration:

$ nano /etc/system.scm

“Import” the module

Define the required module:

1. Look for (use-modules (gnu) right at the top of the file
2. Add (gnu packages docker) anywhere directly below (1)
3. Add (use-service-modules docker) below

The final result may look like this:

(use-modules (gnu)
             (gnu system)
			 (gnu packages docker)
             (px system))

(use-service-modules docker pm)

Install Docker for all user

Skip this is you would like to install docker under a specific user.

If you do not have any packages defined, add:

;; SERVICES
(packages (cons* docker docker-compose
                 %px-desktop-packages))

If you already have any existing packages defined, simply merge docker and docker-compose with the existing values like so:

;; PACKAGES
(packages (cons* i3-vm i3status
		   docker docker-compose               
                 %px-desktop-packages))

Enable the service

Scroll to the bottom, and look for “SERVICES”.

If you do not have any services defined, add:

;; SERVICES
(services (cons* (service docker-service-type)
   				 %px-desktop-services))

If you already have an existing service, add docker-service-type like this:

;; SERVICES
(services (cons* (service nftables-service-type)
                 (service docker-service-type)
                 %px-desktop-services))

Give users access to the service

Look for “USERS” and add the docker group to the supplementary-groups of the user that you hope to run docker under.

The result may look like this:

;; USERS
(users (cons (user-account
               (name "franz")
               (comment "default")
               (group "users")
               (supplementary-groups '("wheel" "netdev"
                                       "audio" "video" "docker")))
               %base-user-accounts))

Reconfigure your system

To update and reconfigure your system in one-go:

$ px update apply

If you prefer to simply apply the config change, without updating:

$ guix system reconfigure /etc/system.scm

Reboot with reboot.

Install the application

If you skipped “Install Docker for all user”, run this.

Now simply install Docker under whichever user you would like to use it.

Run this under your own user account!. If you don’t know who you are, run: whoami.

$ guix package -i docker-cli docker-compose

Troubleshooting

No network inside container during docker build

I sometimes encounter a situation where Docker itself seems to be able to communicate fine, but connectivity fails during the build process. To rely on host-network during build, modify your docker-compose.yml like so:

version: "3.7"
services:
  someapp:
     build: 
	context: .
        network: host

Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix:///var/run/docker.sock

Docker is either not configured or not running.

Not running

# login as root
su - root

# list services; dockerd is not running
herd status

# start dockerd
herd start dockerd

# go back to your user
exit

Not configured

Ensure you have the (service docker-service-type) configured in your /etc/system.scm.

...

(use-service-modules docker) ;; define the module

(px-desktop-os
  (operating-system

...

(services (cons* (service docker-service-type) ;; invoke the service
   %px-desktop-services))

...

  ))

Cannot start service: … mkdir /run/containerd/io.containerd.runtime.v1.l

ERROR: for some-container  Cannot start service postgres: mkdir /run/containerd/io.containerd.runtime.v1.linux/moby/f0ea188b22896d4ddfb70e6977c496fc8537678c11142ca7cb9514d7b22e4b7d: file exists: unknown

or this one:

ERROR: for redis  Cannot start service redis: mkdir /run/containerd/io.containerd.runtime.v1.linux/moby/8b2fafcf0a961f4fa49a82b3060030b6bc7bb27bd6dc51ccb6b7b71257dbc3bd: file exists: unknown

This is an ugly one and I’ve yet to find the time to look into it properly but rm -rf has been working reliably for weeks, without issues or data loss (!!use at your own risk!!). So nuke that with:

rm -rf /run/containerd/io.containerd.runtime.v1.linux/moby/f0ea188b22896d4ddfb70e6977c496fc8537678c11142ca7cb9514d7b22e4b7d` and try again.

See also

• Docker Service (guix.gnu.org)