# Balena deploy / Docker seems to be unavailable

**URL:** <https://forums.balena.io/t/balena-deploy-docker-seems-to-be-unavailable/8227>\
**Category:** openBalena\
**Tags:** balena-cli\
**Created:** [May 11, 2019, 6:45pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/balena-deploy-docker-seems-to-be-unavailable/8227 "2019-05-11T18:45:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![turbopasi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/turbopasi/32/1906_2.png) [@turbopasi](https://forums.balena.io/u/turbopasi)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2019, 6:45pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/balena-deploy-docker-seems-to-be-unavailable/8227/1 "2019-05-11T18:45:43Z")

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Hi there !

I just followed the complete guide on [https://www.balena.io/open/docs/getting-started](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 … ☹

**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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**Author:** ![turbopasi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/turbopasi/32/1906_2.png) [@turbopasi](https://forums.balena.io/u/turbopasi)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2019, 10:31am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/balena-deploy-docker-seems-to-be-unavailable/8227/3 "2019-05-12T10:31:11Z")

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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 … 😕

**Success** : I finally saw the unicorn 😄 … 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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**Author:** ![dfunckt](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/dfunckt/32/56_2.png) [@dfunckt](https://forums.balena.io/u/dfunckt)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2019, 10:31am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/balena-deploy-docker-seems-to-be-unavailable/8227/4 "2019-05-13T10:31:55Z")

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