docker for windows equivalent for "-v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock"

Question

I'm trying to control the host docker service from inside a container.

With Linux host and Linux container that is usually done like this: docker run -it -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock alpine

I now want to achieve the same with a Docker for Windows host and a Linux container.

If tried quite a lot of things, mostly using DOCKER_HOST with varying IP's like 10.75.0.1:2375 (IP of docker VM), 172.17.0.1:2375 (container IP) and 0.0.0.0:2375 as well as 192.168.178.xxx:2375 (host IP).

But apparently nothing responds on port 2375 or 2376 which I checked with something like: docker run -ti --rm alpine /bin/sh -c "apk add -U nmap && nmap -Pn 10.72.0.1 -p 2375-2376"

At this point I'd like to know if this is even possible with Docker for Windows. Most information I found concerns docker-machine / VirtualBox combinations.

Answer 1

This works fine when running Linux containers using Docker for Windows too (but not when running Windows containers). Just ensure that your shell won't rewrite paths or similar.

Answer 2

I don't know how SO works so if necroposting is frowned upon then sorry. I also don't use docker on windows but this thread came up during my search for setting up portainer. I figured out the thing that I wanted to figure out and on first login portainer gave me this warning:

 Ensure that you have started the Portainer container with the following Docker flag:
-v "/var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock" (Linux).
or
-v \\.\pipe\docker_engine:\\.\pipe\docker_engine (Windows).

So, there you go. Hope that helps.