windows

• Using docker-machine
• Using boot2docker

How to connect Docker UI using docker-machine on Windows.

Docker-machine runs the default Docker with TLS enabled. To be able to connect to the Docker Remote API, we need to install the certificates used by Docker in Chrome.

• Use docker-machine config default to find out where are the certificates we need to import in Chrome and the url to connect. In the screenshot below, the connection url is https://192.168.99.100:2376 and the certificates are located in C:\\Users\\borre\\.docker\\machine\\machines\\default

• Before installing, we need to package the certificate as .pfx:

    cd C:\\Users\\borre\\.docker\\machine\\machines\\default
    cat cert.pem ca.pem >> clientcertchain.pem
    openssl pkcs12 -inkey key.pem -in clientcertchain.pem -export -out import.pfx

• To import the certificate in Chrome go to Settings/Show Advanced Settings/Manage Certificates:

  • Import the Docker CA as a "Trusted Root Certification Authorities"

• Import the import.pfx as a Personal certificate.

After installing, we need to restart Chrome (make sure all Chrome instances were closed). After that you should be able to connect to your docker remote api, try: https://192.168.99.100:2376/_ping

How to connect Docker UI using Boot2Docker on Windows

The easiest way to connect to Docker Remote API is by disabling TLS. To do so, you need to:

• Log into the boot2docker virtual machine:

boot2docker ssh

• Add export DOCKER_TLS=no to the file /var/lib/boot2docker/profile (may not exist)

echo "export DOCKER_TLS=no" | sudo tee /var/lib/boot2docker/profile

• Restart boot2docker

boot2docker down
boot2docker up

• Open your browser and verify you can connect to http://192.168.59.103:2375/_ping Try to reconnect!

More info about how to disable TLS: https://github.com/boot2docker/boot2docker/blob/master/README.md#tls-support