Balena deploy / Docker seems to be unavailable

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Hi there !

I just followed the complete guide on https://www.balena.io/open/docs/getting-started . I flashed an SD card and booted my RaspPi 3b+ .

Now running $ balena devices actually shows me my device which is kinda cool.
Next I tried to deploy the sample project “sense-snake” with $balena deploy … but it says:

[Debug] Parsing input…
Docker seems to be unavailable. Is it installed and running?

Now, in the guide above it didn’t mention I need to install docker on my local machine, just the balena-cli. I am running balena-cli on Windows 10. Probably I just need to install docker but … is there a special version I need ? Any setup required for docker so it gets recognized by balena-cli ?

Thanks for any advice !

Update
I installed Docker for Windows. $ docker --version is giving me Docker version 18.09.2, build 6247962. However, when trying to deploy it is still asking for Docker and its unavailability … :frowning:

Update
Turned out that Docker was installed but not actually running. First need to enable Virtualization Feature in my BIOS settings, after that Docker had no trouble to get running. However, $ balena deploy … still reports “Docker seems to be unavailable” … Any ideas ?

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So I got the deployment going with
$ balena deploy myApp --logs --source . --emulated --build --docker=//./pipe/docker_engine

I found this command elsewhere on this forum. Still wondering what happend here, anyone care to explain ?
Thanks !

P.S.: The deploy is still failing, but due to another error … :confused:

Success : I finally saw the unicorn :smile: … I had to readd my ca.crt to the system and then restart docker, now it’s working like a charm

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Really glad you found your way out of this and got started. Let us know if you hit further issues.

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