Official Docker image says docker not running? - docker

Question

I perform the following docker commands in the following order:
docker pull docker
docker run -ti <imgId>
https://hub.docker.com/_/docker/
Now I am inside the "docker" image for Docker
Now suppose I create a temp folder and download a Dockerfile
mkdir temp
cd temp
curl <dockerfile>
docker build .
It will tell me Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix:///var/run/docker.sock. Is the docker daemon running?
This means that the docker service needs to be started, but as the official docker image comes on alpine linux, commands like service/systemctl are not available, so we must perform apk add openrc --no-cache to access these.
After I install it, I still cannot start the docker service.
Performing system docker start says that it cannot find docker as a service?
service: service docker does not exist
Eventually I want to build this via Jenkins.
In the build step, I perform Execute Shell
if [ -f "Dockerfile" ]; then
echo "Dockerfile exists ... removing it"
rm Dockerfile
fi
wget <dockerFile url>
docker build .
I purposely don't do the openrc on Jenkins since I want to test locally first

Answer 1

The image you're pulling here (with the latest tag) does not contain the docker daemon. It's meant to be used as the docker client. What you want is to first get the docker daemon running with the image tagged dind (docker in docker).
docker network create dind
docker run --privileged --name docker --network dind -v docker-client-certs:/certs/client -d docker:dind
To verify it started up and works, you can check the logs.
docker logs docker
Now you can use a client container to connect to the daemon. This is how you connect interactively to the shell, like you wanted to:
docker run -ti --network dind -e DOCKER_TLS_CERTDIR=/certs -v docker-client-certs:/certs/client:ro docker
Docker commands should work inside this container. If you do docker version, you should see the versions of both the client and the server.
Note the two containers share the same network (some examples online feature links, but those are deprecated). They also share some of the TLS certs, which are generated when starting up the dind image.