Closed vlcinsky closed 4 years ago
Hi.
I fully understand your confusion here
https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/plugin_install/ is about the docker plugin install
command, which is designed to manage command line plugins (installation, enablement, etc) based on a docker image packaging of such plugins.
Docker app isn't distributed in this format (yet) so can't be installed by such a command. You have to download binary releases and manually install under .docker/cli-plugins
. Please also note the whole support for CLI plugins is experimental, and as such won't be effective until you set DOCKER_CLI_EXPERIMENTAL=enabled
.
I'll look into updating the docs
@ndeloof nice. Proposed text is good, it identifies the engine/cli plugin confusion and provides instructions to enable experimental for cli.
For me it works.
The only sentence which I think shall be changed is:
Note: This requires a pre-release version of the Docker CLI
on line 248
My docker client reports 19.0.3, which does not seem to be pre-release, so the note seems to be obsolete.
yes indeed, I missed this one. Thanks for reporting this usability issue.
Description
Trying to install docker-app as docker plugin, I failed to find working instructions.
Steps to reproduce the issue:
Describe the results you received: Instructions are confusing. While docker-app offers brief instructions, I ended up with docker-app in
~/.docker/cli-plugins
directory without any effect as the official instruction assume, plugin will be referenced via some docker image.Describe the results you expected: Find working instructions to install docker-app as docker plugin. Either:
Output of
docker version
:Output of
docker app version
:Output of
docker info
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