RUNNING DOCKER ON MAC FOR MAC

The other suggestion was to create a docker group on the Mac and change the ownership of /var/run/docker.sock to that group so that it matches the container. I’ve seen too many badly implemented Jenkins jobs to feel like this is a good idea. The first was giving the jenkins user sudo access. Unfortunately every resource I could find recommended one of two solutions for this. Using different user and group structures to try and align the Jenkins container to the host didn’t work because there is so much variability across platforms with group names and identifiers. I experimented with a bunch of different ways to accomplish this. This is a good time to remember that the primary target is AWS.

RUNNING DOCKER ON MAC FOR MAC

Because permissions are a thing and Docker for Mac is ‘Just Different’ when it comes to the permissions model. Turns out this isn’t quite so straightforward as mounting /var/run/docker.sock as a volume for the container to make use of (note, it might actually be that straightforward on a Linux machine).

But it should be testable on a Macbook (or other platform) without a lot of headache. So I want the running Jenkins container to be able to access Docker running on the host machine. Running Docker inside Docker is a possibility but the author of the feature has other suggestions for this use case. At the risk of going full Inception in the opening paragraph, I want the Jenkins container running in Docker to be able to run Docker commands. I’ve been working on a Jenkins image that will run in AWS.

Running docker on mac