Docker TLS error on Mac

Question

I ran docker images and got the following error:

FATA[0000] Get http:///var/run/docker.sock/v1.17/images/json:
dial unix /var/run/docker.sock: no such file or directory.
Are you trying to connect to a TLS-enabled daemon without TLS?

There seems to be no useful message on how to fix the error. What could be wrong?

Answer 1

https://docs.docker.com/installation/mac/

you need to do this once:

boot2docker init

then, everytime you reboot your mac you will need to run :

boot2docker start

That is the command that starts the docker daemon. But, on each shell you want to access it from you will need to run:

$(boot2docker shellinit)

Now you can use the docker client, like:

docker run hello-world