How to use Docker Desktop inside devcontainer

[RollsChris]

Hi i'm looking to run the command docker init inside my dev container, but that command can not be found.
I am using docker-outside-docker which gives me the docker cli tool but not the init command.

How can i get access to it?

running Docker version i get this:

Client:
Version: 26.1.1-1
API version: 1.45
Go version: go1.21.9
Git commit: 4cf5afaefa0bec8ab94fcf631add24e284d0ecbf
Built: Tue Apr 30 11:40:03 UTC 2024
OS/Arch: linux/amd64
Context: default

Server: Docker Desktop 4.29.0 (145265)
Engine:
Version: 26.0.0
API version: 1.45 (minimum version 1.24)
Go version: go1.21.8
Git commit: 8b79278
Built: Wed Mar 20 15:18:01 2024
OS/Arch: linux/amd64
Experimental: false
containerd:
Version: 1.6.28
GitCommit: ae07eda36dd25f8a1b98dfbf587313b99c0190bb
runc:
Version: 1.1.12
GitCommit: v1.1.12-0-g51d5e94
docker-init:
Version: 0.19.0
GitCommit: de40ad0

Thanks

[samruddhikhandale]

Hi 👋

Docker Desktop itself cannot be accessed inside a dev container as it is a graphical user interface application. Hence, you can not access the docker init command which is specific to Docker Desktop. However, you can access the Docker daemon from inside a dev container, which allows you to run Docker commands.

This is typically done by mounting the Docker socket from the host into the dev container ; which you are currently achieving with the docker-outside-docker Feature.

[RollsChris]

i thought by using docker-outside-docker it had access to docker desktop on the host.

its weird that there are different Management commands between my dev container and wsl host.