docs: Added section for WSL installation and verification #22825
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@chelnak could you also have a look please whenever you can ? Motivation here is, many customers get stuck in WSL install step or complain about non-admin users getting UAC prompts. Hence we thought a this brief section before the install section. |
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| ### Adjust installation based on user's administrator access |
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I'm not quite sure about this one.
When in WSL mode, you only activate the Windows Service if you select "Add the *.docker.internal names to the host's /etc/hosts file (Requires password)" from settings.
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Thanks Craig, I'll double check this on a VM.
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I see that UAC prompt appears in the scenario you mentioned and oops, I missed the part on "com.docker.service is required by Windows containers and Hyper-V backend".
I'll run through installation again tomorrow and fix this. Thanks again @chelnak!
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@chaomonica / @chelnak we can word it something like this:
Title can be "Administrator Privileges and Installation Requirements", since this is generic, it can be outside the "WSL: Verification and Setup" section.
Installing Docker Desktop requires administrator privileges. However, once installed, it can be used without administrative access. Some actions, though, still need elevated permissions. For details, see [Understand permission requirements for Windows].
If your users do not have administrator rights and plan to perform operations that require elevated privileges, be sure to install Docker Desktop using the --always-run-service installer flag. This ensures those actions can still be executed without prompting for UAC elevation.
Description
Many customer escalations involving Docker Desktop on Windows involve WSL. While we have internal documentation for for troubleshooting/installation, these do not exist on our public facing docs.
Related issues or tickets
SEG-574 (Slack thread linked in ticket for context)
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