Github Action to start Docker Desktop.
This github action is experimental. It currently supports starting Docker Desktop on large-runner "linux" nodes in Github Actions.
Important: it seems that since mid September 2023, the action inconsistently fails on macOs runner. We have updated the action to use linux runners. However, since virtualisation is required for Docker Desktop to start, you must be sure that the runner as it enabled. Large-runners have it from February 2023.
Note that the usage of Docker Desktop is subject to Docker Desktop license agreement.
In your GitHub Action workflow, you must use a GitHub large-runner with virtualization enabled, and then you can add a step:
steps:
- id: start_desktop
uses: docker/desktop-action/start@v0.2.0
After this step executes, Docker Desktop is ready and available, the docker CLI can be executed in subsequent "run" steps